Focuses on the enlistment of slaves in the Brazilian army from 1800 to 1888. Questions about the nature of military institutions; Army's policy toward slavery; Principles that governed recruitment and slavery; Administrative procedures that the government and army developed to deal with runaways in the ranks.;
"In this paper the process of creolisation will be considered through analysis of the wills and testaments of African, black and mixed-race women in nineteenth-century Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. As primary sources these will and testaments provide evidence concerning material, social and cultural markers of creolisation." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR];
Centering Women consists of somewhat altered versions of the author's previously published articles, with an introduction and "summation" that argue for a post-nationalist history of gender in the Caribbean
Reviews a book that finds that Jews had a minuscule role in the slave trade and played only a minor role as slave owners wherever they resided in the New World
