Beyond Bondage : Free Women of Color in the Americas.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- PART 1. ACHIEVING AND PRESERVING FREEDOM -- 1. Maroon Women in Colonial Spanish America: Case Studies in the Circum-Caribbean from the Sixteenth through the Eighteenth Centuries -- 2. Of Life and Freedom at the (Tropical) Hearth: El Cobre, Cuba, 1709-73 -- 3. In the Shadow of the Plantation: Women of Color and the Libres de fait of Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1685-1848 -- 4. "To Be Free Is Very Sweet": The Manumission of Female Slaves in Antigua, 1817-26 -- 5. "Do Thou in Gentle Phibia Smile": Scenes from an Interracial Marriage, Jamaica, 1754-86 -- 6. The Fragile Nature of Freedom: Free Women of Color in the U.S. South -- PART 2. MAKING A LIFE IN FREEDOM -- 7. Out of Bounds: Emancipated and Enslaved Women in Antebellum America -- 8. Free Black and Colored Women in Early-Nineteenth-Century Paramaribo, Suriname -- 9. Ana Paulinha de Queiros, Joaquina da Costa, and Their Neighbors: Free Women of Color as Household Heads in Rural Bahia (Brazil), 1835 -- 10. Libertas Citadinas: Free Women of Color in San Juan, Puerto Rico -- 11. Landlords, Shopkeepers, Farmers, and Slave-Owners: Free Black Female Property-Holders in Colonial New Orleans -- 13. Henriette Delille, Free Women of Color, and Catholicism in Antebellum New Orleans, 1727-1852 -- 12. Free Women of Color in Central Brazil, 1779-1832 -- 14. Religious Women of Color in Seventeenth-Century Lima: Estefania de San Ioseph and Ursula de Jesu Christo -- Contributors -- Index.

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