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Future research will undoubtedly confirm the major finding of this book: Landlords, Shopkeepers, Farmers, and Slave-Owners: They rarely appeared in official correspondence except when their role in batuques social dances was denounced or when they were accused of prostitution. Fifteen years later it still consisted of no more than fifty or sixty Together they have edited More Than Chattel: Although their freedom, represented by the acquisition of property, respectability, and opportunity, always remained precarious, the collection supports the surprising conclusion that women of color often sought and obtained these advantages more successfully than their male counterparts.

The industry also does not understand why black consumers might want to rent porn rather than buy. The Dred Scott Decision: To me, I was merely having sex, experimenting with my sexuality, and being recorded while doing so. In both urban and rural areas, there were free women of color who acquired their own slaves through purchase and inheritance, and some free black women were wealthier than many of the whites who lived around them. When, I think on mother and friends, And the joy their countenance gave; Ah! I certainly had never given thought to whether my choice to be tied up, disciplined, and fucked by men and women on film contributed to sexual freedom.

I attribute my varied experience in working for both larger production houses on feature films and for smaller companies with equally smaller budgets to the fact that I have Caucasian features, light skin, and a cheery attitude, and speak in standard English. I cannot conceive Why judges and magistrates do not relieve My down-trodden people from under thy hand, Restore them their freedom, and give them their land. Clearly there is a wealth of material available in archives all through the Americas, and, as this book makes clear, free women of color were far more numerous than historians have realized. I see the adult industry as no different from mainstream Hollywood where they pick and choose which actors of color or women or gay actors to applaud each year and which to ignore… despite how amazing they are.