Contents
1. Doña Teresa de Aguilera y Roche before the Inquisition: The Travails of a Seventeenth-Century Aristocratic Woman in New Mexico 7
Ramón A. Gutiérrez
2. “Women Are as Knowing Therein as the Men”: Dutch Women in Early America 43
Kim Todt
3. Women as Witches, Witches as Women: Witchcraft and Patriarchy in Colonial North America 66
Matthew Dennis and Elizabeth Reis
4. Servant Women and Sex in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake 95
Betty Wood
5. Rebecca Kellogg Ashley: Negotiating Identity on the Early American Borderlands, 1704–1757 118
Joy A. J. Howard
6. Womanly Masters: Gendering Slave Ownership in Colonial Jamaica 139
Christine Walker
7. Women at the Crossroads: Trade, Mobility, and Power in Early French America and Detroit 159
Karen L. Marrero
8. The Agrarian Village World of Indian Women in the Ohio River Valley 186
Susan Sleeper-Smith
9. Loyalist Women in British New York City, 1776–1783 210
Ruma Chopra
10. “I Knew That If I Went Back to Virginia, I Should Never Get My Liberty”