James Hannaham’s second novel Delicious Foods weaves a palimpsest narrative that juxtaposes present-day farm labor with the historical legacy of slavery plantations by intertwining the contemporary struggles of exploited farm workers with the historical horrors of enslaved labor. As a result, the novel creates a powerful commentary on the enduring legacy of slavery in the United States and invites readers to envisage historical slavery outside the limitations of time and space. I argue that Hannaham achieves two important objectives in the novel: first, he innovates the neo-slave narrative genre by refusing to address historical slavery as a past event, but instead, the writer presents slavery as modern-day labor practices, and second, by addressing the similarities between modern-day farm labor with historical slavery Hannaham highlights necropolitical practices mostly deep-rooted in the American agribusiness sector.