Original publication date
2020-08
Publication
University of Pennsylvania Press (2020), Edition: Illustrated, 323 pages
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CONTENTS
Introduction. The Women in the Water
1. Tastemakers: Intimacy, Slavery, and Power in Senegambia
2. Born of This Place: Kinship, Violence, and the Pinets' Overlapping Diasporas
3. La Traversée: Gender, Commodification, and the Long Middle Passage
4. Full Use of Her: Intimacy, Service, and Labor in New Orleans
5. Black Femme Acts, Archives, and Archipelagos of Freedom
6. Life After Death: Legacies of Freedom in Spanish New Orleans
Conclusion. Femmes de Couleur Libres and the Nineteenth Century
List of Archives and Databases
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction. The Women in the Water
1. Tastemakers: Intimacy, Slavery, and Power in Senegambia
2. Born of This Place: Kinship, Violence, and the Pinets' Overlapping Diasporas
3. La Traversée: Gender, Commodification, and the Long Middle Passage
4. Full Use of Her: Intimacy, Service, and Labor in New Orleans
5. Black Femme Acts, Archives, and Archipelagos of Freedom
6. Life After Death: Legacies of Freedom in Spanish New Orleans
Conclusion. Femmes de Couleur Libres and the Nineteenth Century
List of Archives and Databases
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
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