As If She Were Free - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-x

Figures

pp xi-xii

Contributors

pp xiii-xviii

Elizabeth Catlett and the Form of Emancipation

pp xix-xxii

Acknowledgments

pp xxiii-xxvi

Introduction

pp 1-24

Part I - Claiming Emancipation during the Rise of New World Slavery

pp 25-128

1 - Margarita de Sossa, Sixteenth-Century Puebla de los Ángeles, New Spain (Mexico)

pp 27-42

2 - Paula de Eguiluz, Seventeenth-Century Puerto Rico, Cuba, and New Granada (Colombia)

pp 43-57

3 - Reytory Angola, Seventeenth-Century Manhattan (US)

pp 58-78

4 - Elizabeth Key, Seventeenth-Century Virginia (US)

pp 79-95

5 - Hannah Manena McKenney, Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Bermuda and New Providence (Bahamas)

pp 96-109

6 - Juana de Godinez, Seventeenth-Century Lima (Peru)

pp 110-128

Part II - Experiencing Freedom during Slavery’s Expansion

pp 129-252

7 - Judith and Hannah: Eighteenth-Century Florida, South Carolina, and Virginia (US)

pp 131-150

8 - Sarah Chauqum, Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island and Connecticut (US)

pp 151-170

9 - Marion, Eighteenth-Century Natchitoches, Louisiana (US)

pp 171-189

10 - Anna Maria Lopes de Brito, Eighteenth-Century Minas Gerais (Brazil)

pp 190-206

11 - Juana Ramírez, Eighteenth-Century Oaxaca, New Spain (Mexico)

pp 207-217

12 - Juana María Álvarez, Eighteenth-Century New Granada (Colombia)

pp 218-235

13 - María Hipólita Lozano, Eighteenth-Century Lima (Peru)

pp 236-252

Part III - Envisaging Emancipation during Second Slavery

pp 253-356

14 - Bessy Chambers, Nineteenth-Century Jamaica

pp 255-273

15 - Minerva, Nineteenth-Century Téjas and Louisiana (US), and Mexico

pp 274-292

16 - Cécile Fatiman and Petra Carabalí, Late Eighteenth-Century Haiti and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cuba

pp 293-311

17 - Mary Ellen Pleasant, Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts and California (US)

pp 312-330