- FEET (1783-1810) The Coffle: Charles Ball: north to south - walking, shuffling, moving, hurting, emigrating, marginalizing, transporting, transforming, distancing, separating, violating,
- HEADS (1791-1815) The Adventine: The Man with the Iron Collar - Haitian revolution, Jackson, the crushing of the will to be free, heads on spikes, severed, conspiring, conniving
- RIGHT HAND (1815-1819) The Temperance: Rachel - financial power from commodities that induced craving for more: chocolate, cotton, coffee, tobacco, and sugar and cotton became the world's most-traded commodity - circuits of cotton and capital constructed. Maspero's gave men a new normal with slave trading, large transactions, and access to money-making, power growing
- LEFT HAND (1805-1861) The Cotton Plantation: Magnolias Martin Luther "left handed" power: the strength of the poor and the weak, the secret way of seemingly passive resistance to evil - new techniques that extracted ever-greater cotton efficiency transformed life at the plantation and around the world. 1.4 million pounds in 1800 to 2 billion pounds in 1860. Systematized torture was the method - the whip, the pushing system. Patsey's hands did their own thinking.
- TONGUES (1819-1824)
- breath
- seed
- blood
- backs
- arms
the corpse