Intra-independence: reconceptualizing freedom and resistance to bondage -- Choosing the bondage of domesticity and White womanhood in The bondwoman's narrative -- Voluntary enslavement and discursive violence : plaðcage and Louisa Picquet -- The bondage of memory in Gayl Jones's Corregidora -- Coda: From bondage to war: the lives of contemporary Black women in the novels of Toni Morrison.