“speculative knowledge of freedom would establish the vision of what might be, even if unrealizable within the prevailing terms of order.”
“everyday practices explored the possibility of transfigured existence and cultivated an imagination of the otherwise and elsewhere”
“At secret meetings and freedom schools, hidden away in loopholes of retreat and hush arbors, gathered at the river or dwelling in the swamp, the enslaved articulated a vision of freedom that far exceeded that of the liberal imagination. It enabled them to conceive other ways of existing” (SH, Scenes of Subjection)
