Engendering choice : slavery and consumerism in central Virginia / Barbara J. Heath -- Designing women : measuring acquisition and access at the hermitage plantation / Jillian E. Galle -- Granny midwives : gender and generational mediators of the African American community / Laurie A. Wilkie -- Gender and the presentation of self : an example from the hermitage / Brian W. Thomas, Larissa Thomas -- Risk and women's roles in the slave family : data from Oxmoor and Locust Grove Plantations in Kentucky / Amy L. Young -- Engendering enslaved communities on Virginia's and North Carolina's eighteenth- and nineteenth-century plantations / Patricia Samford -- Living arrangements among enslaved women and men at an early-eighteenth-century Virginia quartering site / Garrett R. Fesler -- African American men, women, and children in nineteenth-century Natchez, Mississippi : an analysis of the city cemetery sexton's records / Marie Elaine Danforth -- Feminine voices from beyond the grave : what burials can tell us about gender differences among historic African Americans / Kristin J. Wilson, Melanie A. Cabak