Miners, Farmers, and Market People

*Mariana L. R. Dantas is an associate professor of history at Ohio University. Her research focuses on the history of African slavery in the Atlantic World. She is the author of Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas (Palgrave, 2008). She has published chapters in various collected volumes and articles in the Journal of Family History, the Colonial Latin American Historical Review, and the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History.