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Author: Autumn Whitefield-Madrano

As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas Daniel Leeds have been identifiedAs If She Were Free brings together the biographies of twenty four women of African descent to reveal how enslaved and recently freed women sought, imagined, and found freedom from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries in the Americas. Our biographical approach allows readers to view large social processes migration, trade, enslavement, emancipation through the perspective of individual women moving across the boundaries of slavery and