Beyond bondage free women of color in the Americas (University of Illinois Press, 2004)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Maroon women in colonial Spanish America : case studies in the Circum-Caribbean from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries - Jane Landers -- - Of life and freedom at the (tropical) hearth : El Cobre, Cuba, 1709-73 - María Elena Díaz -- - In the shadow of the plantation : women of color and the Libres de fait of Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1685-1848 - Bernard Moitt -- - "To be free is very sweet" : the manumission of female slaves in Antigua, 1817-26 - David Barry Gaspar -- - "Do thou in gentle Phibia smile" : scenes from an interracial marriage, Jamaica, 1754-86 - Trevor Burnard -- - The fragile nature of freedom : free women of color in the U.S. South - Loren Schweninger -- - Out of bounds : emancipated and enslaved women in Antebellum America - Wilma King -- - Free Black and Colored women in early-nineteenth-century Paramaribo, Suriname - Rosemarijn Hoefte - Jean Jacques Vrij -- - 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 - Martha Few -- - Libertas citadinas : free women of color in San Juan, Puerto Rico - Félix V. Matos Rodríguez -- - Landlords, shopkeepers, farmers, and slave-owners : free Black female property-holders in colonial New Orleans - Kimberly S. Hanger -- - Free women of color in Central Brazil, 1779-1832 - Mary C. Karasch -- - Henriette Delille, free women of color, and Catholicism in Antebellum New Orleans, 1727-1852 - Virginia Meacham Gould -- - Religious women of color in seventeenth-century Lima : Estefania de San Ioseph and Ursula de Jesu Christo - Alice L. Wood