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