Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
List of Illustrations and Tables
PART I. EMANCIPATION AND MANUMISSION IN OLD AND NEW WORLD SLAVERY
1. Freedpeople: A Brief Cross-cultural History, Marc Kleijwegt
PART II. FREEDPEOPLE IN A SLAVE SOCIETY
2. Liberti and Libertas: A Call for Civic Freedom, Valentina Arena
3. Freed Slaves, Self-presentation and Corporate Identity in the Roman World, Marc Kleijwegt
4. Redemption of Slaves in Ancient Sri Lanka, Chandima Wickramasinghe
5. Wealthy Free Women of Colour in Charleston, South Carolina, during Slavery, Rita Reynolds
6. Inheritance Practices among Individuals of African Origin and Descent in Eighteenth-century Minas Gerais, Brazil, Mariana Dantas
PART III. FREEDPEOPLE AFTER EMANCIPATION
7. Coercion and Freedom in the Cape Colony, 1652-1856, Nigel Worden
8. "We not slave again": Enslaved Jamaicans in Early Freedom, 1838-1865, Swithin Wilmot
9. Dress: From Slavery to Freedom among Jamaican Colonised Women, 1790-1890, Steeve Buckridge
10. After Slavery in French West Africa: The Problem of the Invisible Slave, Martin Klein
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