Slavery was outlawed in this country more than a century ago, but Americans are still shackled to a system that values money more than humanity, power more than truth, conformity more than creativity. In this impassioned call-to-arms, bestselling Walter Mosley uses the African-American experience as a classic example of how all American people are still in chains. Mosley challenges us to cast off the chains of yesterday's society, insisting that the nation and its potentials are ours to command, but only if we work, individually and collectively, and seize the freedom the future holds.