Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. The Women in the Water 1
4. Chapter 1. Tastemakers: Intimacy, Slavery, and Power in Senegambia 16
5. Chapter 2. Born of This Place: Kinship, Violence, and the Pinets’ Overlapping Diasporas 51
6. Chapter 3. La Traversée: Gender, Commodification, and the Long Middle Passage 77
7. Chapter 4. Full Use of Her: Intimacy, Service, and Labor in New Orleans 121
8. Chapter 5. Black Femme: Acts, Archives, and Archipelagos of Freedom 153
9. Chapter 6. Life After Death: Legacies of Freedom in Spanish New Orleans 187
10. Conclusion. Femmes de Couleur Libres and the Nineteenth Century 219
11. Archives and Databases 233
12. Notes 235
13. Index 299
14. Acknowledgments 313