Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-298) and index.
"Some could suckle over their shoulder" : male travelers, female bodies, and the gendering of racial ideology / Jennifer L. Morgan -- Consciousness and calling : african american midwives at work in the antebellum south / Sharla M. Fett -- The pleasures of resistance : enslaved women and body politics in the plantation south, 1830-1861 / Stephanie M. H. Camp -- Genealogies to a past : africa, ethnicity, and marriage in seventeenth-century mexico / Herman L. Bennett -- Kinship and freedom : fugitive slave women's incorporation into creek society / Barbara Krauthamer -- My people, my people : the dynamics of community in southern slavery / Dylan C. Penningroth -- Spiritual terror and sacred authority : the power of the supernatural in jamaican slave society / Vincent Brown -- Correspondences in black and white : sentiment and the slave market revolution / Phillip Troutman -- "Stol' and fetched here" : enslaved migration, ex-slave narratives, and vernacular history / Edward E. Baptist -- British slavery and british politics : a perspective and a prospectus / Christopher L. Brown