Legal fictions of slavery and resistance -- "Further deponent sayeth not": multiple consciousness and suppressed narratives in tellings of slave revolt -- Part two: "I want it root and branch destroyed": the radical politics and shifting voices of Sojourner Truth -- A woman among the pettifoggers: truth as legal actor -- Framing truth and resisting frames -- Part three: The regulations of robbers: Harriet Jacobs's legal critique -- "We could have told them a different story": slave law and slave voices -- Reframing legal fictions of womanhood -- Epilogue -- Confronting the legacies: decoding modern rhetorics of race.