- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
McLaurin concludes by discussing the total costs of slavery for Americans of the 19th century. To state the painfully obvious, slavery devastated millions of black people’s lives. Slaves grew up in a state of fear, and even after the 13th Amendment illegalized slavery, the legacy of involuntary servitude continued to challenge African Americans on a daily basis. But McLaurin doesn’t stop there. Even if black slaves were the principle victims of slavery, white slaveholders were also, in a way, “victims” of slavery. As McLaurin has shown, white slave owners had to engage in some elaborate and unwieldy rationalizations in order…