Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Illustrations IX
4. Note on Sources XI
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1. ‘‘Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder’’: Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology 12
7. Chapter 2. ‘‘The Number of Women Doeth Much Disparayes the Whole Cargoe’’: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and West African Gender Roles 50
8. Chapter 3. ‘‘The Breedings Shall Goe with Their Mothers’’: Gender and Evolving Practices of Slaveownership in the English American Colonies 69
9. Chapter 4. ‘‘Hannah and Hir Children’’: Reproduction and Creolization Among Enslaved Women 107
10. Chapter 5. ‘‘Women’s Sweat’’: Gender and Agricultural Labor in the Atlantic World 144
11. Chapter 6 .‘‘Deluders and Seducers of Each Other’’: Gender and the Changing Nature of Resistance 166
12. Epilogue 196
13. Notes 203
14. Bibliography 251
15. Index 273
16. Acknowledgments 277