CONTENTS

List of Tables

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Movement and the Community of Free People of Color in Natchez

2 Sexual Violence and Community Creation in Natchez

3 Gendered Violence as a Mechanism of Control

4 Challenges to One’s Most Intimate Property: Themselves

5 Threats to Property

6 Networks of Friends and Family

7 Movement across the Color Line: Racial Passing as Resistance

Conclusion

A Note on Methods

Notes

Bibliography

Index