Contents

pp v-vii

Acknowledgements

pp viii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-x

Contributors

pp xi-xiii

Map 1 Western Africa

pp xiv-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-16

Part One - Property

pp 17-18

1 - Adaptation in the Aftermath of Slavery Women, Trade & Property in Sierra Leone, c. 1790–1812

pp 19-37

2 - Women, Land & Power in the Lower Gambia River Region

pp 38-54

3 - Women & Food Production Agriculture, Demography & Access to Land in Late Eighteenth-Century Catumbela

pp 55-69

4 - Women's Material World in Nineteenth-Century Benguela

pp 70-86

Part Two - Vulnerability

pp 87-88

5 - Prostitution, Polyandry or Rape? On the Ambiguity of European Sources for the West African Coast, 1660–1860

pp 89-108

6 - Parrying Palavers Coastal Akan Women & the Search for Security in the Eighteenth Century 109

pp 109-130

7 - To be Female & Free Mapping Mobility & Emancipation in Lagos, Badagry & Abẹokuta 1853–1865

pp 131-147

8 - Gendered Authority, Gendered Violence Family, Household & Identity in the Life & Death of a Brazilian Freed Woman in Lagos

pp 148-168

Part Three - Mobility

pp 169-170

9 - From Child Slave to Madam Esperance One Woman's Career in the Anglo-African World c. 1675–1707

pp 171-190

10 - Writing the History of the Trans-african Woman in the Revolutionary French Atlantic

pp 191-216

11 - Spouses & Commercial Partners Immigrant Men & Locally Born Women in Luanda 1831–1859

pp 217-232

12 - Women, Family & Daily Life in Senegal's Nineteenth- Century Atlantic Towns

pp 233-247

Bibliography

pp 248-278

Index

pp 279-290