Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. List of Illustrations ix
5. Contributors xi
6. Part One: Property
7. 1 Adaptation in the Aftermath of Slavery Women, Trade & Property in Sierra Leone, c. 1790–1812 17
8. 2 Women, Land & Power in the Lower Gambia River Region 38
9. 3 Women & Food Production Agriculture, Demography & Access to Land in Late Eighteenth-Century Catumbela 55
10. 4 Women’s Material World in Nineteenth-Century Benguela 70
11. Part Two: Vulnerability
12. 5 Prostitution, Polyandry or Rape? On the Ambiguity of European Sources for the West African Coast, 1660–1860 87
13. 6 Parrying Palavers Coastal Akan Women & the Search for Security in the Eighteenth Century 109
14. 7 To be Female & Free Mapping Mobility & Emancipation in Lagos, Badagry & Abẹokuta 1853–1865 131
15. 8 Gendered Authority, Gendered Violence Family, Household & Identity in the Life & Death of a Brazilian Freed Woman in Lagos 148
16. Part Three: Mobility
17. 9 From Child Slave to Madam Esperance One Woman’s Career in the Anglo-African World c. 1675–1707 169
18. 10 Writing the History of the Trans-African Woman in the Revolutionary French Atlantic 191
19. 11 Spouses & Commercial Partners Immigrant Men & Locally Born Women in Luanda 1831–1859 217
20. 12 Women, Family & Daily Life in Senegal’s Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Towns 233
21. Bibliography 248
22. Index 279