MARIANA DANTAS is Assistant Professor of History, Ohio University, USA.

'Dantas's Black Townsmen is a well-researched book on the enslaved and free population of colour in Baltimore and Sabara in the long eighteenth century, and will be of great comparative use to researchers working on urban African-Americans in the Americas. - Silvia Espelt Bombin, Newcastle University

• Abstract Introduction Shaping Urban Space in Eighteenth-century Minas Gerais and Maryland The Slave Population in Baltimore and Sabará The Urban Slave Labor Force Manumission Practices and the Negotiation of Slave Labor The Rise of the Free Urban Population and Labor Force of African Origin and Descent Free Townspeople of African Origin and Descent Conclusion

MARIANA DANTAS is Assistant Professor of History, Ohio University, USA.

'Dantas's Black Townsmen is a well-researched book on the enslaved and free population of colour in Baltimore and Sabara in the long eighteenth century, and will be of great comparative use to researchers working on urban African-Americans in the Americas. - Silvia Espelt Bombin, Newcastle University

• Abstract Introduction Shaping Urban Space in Eighteenth-century Minas Gerais and Maryland The Slave Population in Baltimore and Sabará The Urban Slave Labor Force Manumission Practices and the Negotiation of Slave Labor The Rise of the Free Urban Population and Labor Force of African Origin and Descent Free Townspeople of African Origin and Descent Conclusion