Contents

pp.：  5 – 6

List of Maps and Illustrations

pp.：  7 – 10

Acknowledgements

pp.：  11 – 12

List of Contributors

pp.：  13 – 18

Introduction: Mother Courage and Her Sisters: Women’s Worlds in the Premodern Atlantic

pp.：  19 – 54

Section One: Metropolitan Frameworks

pp.：  55 – 168

The Women of Early Modern Triana: Life, Death, and Survival Strategies in Seville’s Maritime District

pp.：  59 – 86

Aberdeen and the Dutch Atlantic: Women and Woolens in the Seventeenth Century

pp.：  87 – 120

“Ports, Petticoats and Power?” Women and Work in Early-National Philadelphia

pp.：  121 – 144

Between Lady and Slave: White Working Women in the Eighteenth-Century Leeward Islands

pp.：  145 – 168

Section Two: Traders and Travelers

pp.：  169 – 304

The Price of Assimilation: Spanish and Portuguese Women in French Cities, 1500–1650

pp.：  173 – 200

Capable Entrepreneurs: The Women Merchants and Traders of New Netherland

pp.：  201 – 232

“Can She be a woman?” Gender and Contraband in the Revolutionary Atlantic

pp.：  233 – 268

Lives On the Seas: Women’s Trajectories in Port Cities of the Portuguese Overseas Empire

pp.：  269 – 304

Section Three: Interactions and Intermediaries

pp.：  305 – 416

Wives, Brokers, and Laborers: Women at Cape Coast, 1750–1807

pp.：  309 – 332

Gendering the Black Atlantic: Women’s Agency in Coastal Trade Settlements in the Guinea Bissau Region

pp.：  333 – 374

Housekeepers, Merchants, Rentières: Free Women of Color in the Port Cities of Colonial Saint-Domingue, 1750–1790

pp.：  375 – 416

Conclusion: Women in the Port Cities of the Early Modern Atlantic World: Retrospect and Prospect

pp.：  417 – 426

Bibliography

pp.：  427 – 444

Index

pp.：  445 – 461