New Bones Abolition addresses those of us broken enough to grow new bones in order to stabilize our political traditions that renew freedom struggles. Reflecting on police violence political movements Black feminism Erica Garner Mumia AbuJamal caretakers and compradors Joy James analyzes the amp8220Captive Maternalamp8221 which emerges from legacies of colonialism chattel slavery and predatory policing to explore the stages of resistance and communal rebellion that manifest through war resistance. She recognizes a long line of gendered and ungendered freedom fighters who within a racialized and economicallystratified democracy transform from coerced or conflicted caretakers into builders of movements who realize the necessity of maroon spaces and ultimately the inevitability of becoming war resisters that mobilize against genocide and state violence. New Bones Abolition weaves a narrative of a historically complex and engaged people seeking to quell state violence. James discusses the contributions of the mother Mamie TillMobley who held a 1955 opencasket funeral for her fourteenyearold Emmett Till murdered by white nationalists the 1971 rebels at Attica prison the resilience of political prisoners despite the surplus torture they endured the emergence of Black feminists as political theorists human rights advocates seeking abolition and the radical intellectualism of Erica Garner daughter of Eric Garner slain in 2014 by the NYPD. James positions the Captive Maternal within the evolution of contemporary abolition. Her meditation on and theorizing of Black radicals and revolutionaries works to honor Agapedriven communities and organizers that deter statepolice predatory violence through love caretaking protest movements marronage and war resistance.