Contents Preface Part 1: Achieving and Preserving Freedom 1. Maroon Women in Colonial Spanish America: Case Studies in the Circum-Caribbean, Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries Jane Landers 2. Of Life and Freedom in the (Tropical) Hearth: El Cobre, Cuba, 1709-73 Maria Elena Diaz 3. In the Shadow of the Plantation: Women of Color and the Libres de fait of Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1685-1848 Bernard Moitt 4. "To Be Free Is Very Sweet": The Manumission of Female Slaves in Antigua, 1817-26 David Barry Gaspar 5. "Do Thou in Gentle Phibia Smile": Scenes from an Interracial Marriage, Jamaica, 1754-86 Trevor Burnard 6. The Fragile Nature of Freedom: Free Women of Color in the United States South Loren Schweninger Part 2: Making a Life in Freedom 7. "Out of Bounds": Emancipated and Enslaved Women in Antebellum America Wilma King 8. Free Black and Colored Women in Early Nineteenth-Century Paramaribo, Suriname Rosemarijn Hoefte and Jean Jacques Vrij 9. Ana Paulinha de Queirós, Joaquina da Costa, and Their Neighbors: Free Women of Color as Household Heads in Rural Bahia (Brazil), 1835 B. J. Barickman and Martha Few 10. Libertas Citadinas: Free Women of Color in San Juan, Puerto Rico Félix V. Matos Rodríguez 11. Landlords, Shopkeepers, Farmers, Slaveowners: Free Black Female Property Holders in Colonial New Orleans Kimberly S. Hanger 12. Free Women of Color in Central Brazil, 1779-1832 Mary C. Karasch 13. Henriette Delille, Free Women of Color, and Catholicism in Antebellum New Orleans, 1727-1852 Virginia Meacham Gould 14. Religious Women of Color in Seventeenth-Century Lima: Estefania de San Ioseph and Ursula de Jesu Christo Alice L. Wood Contributors Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Women, Black America History, Free blacks America History, America Social conditions, America Race relations, Slavery America History
