Jenny Shaw is associate professor of history at the University of Alabama.

An astoundingly detailed intimate history of slavery, servitude, kinship, and legacy originating on one late seventeenth-century Barbados plantation. Shaw's remarkable gift as a historian in this book is her relentless labor in uncovering the transatlantic, gendered, racial, and sexual experiences and lived possibilities of enslaved and servant women from a British colonial archive that does not center Black women's perspectives. With meticulous care and rigor, Shaw exhaustively follows every trace of their records to show how these otherwise historically invisible women challenged imperial, racial, and patriarchal power and demanded their due. With The Women of Rendezvous, Jenny Shaw leads the field of gender and slavery into new methodological territory." - Marisa J. Fuentes, author of Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive"This book is gorgeously written from the very first sentence. Through her impeccable scholarship and creative skill, Shaw turns scattered references to enslaved and free women into a coherent story of early modern women's efforts toward family and freedom." - Sharon Block, author of Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America"Lucid and beautifully textured, this microhistory of a single family illuminates the ways that slavery shaped empire, in colonies and in the metropolis. The book achieves both rich granular coverage and an impressively transatlantic perspective. I am full of admiration for Shaw's elegant, impressive, and timely project." - Sarah M. S. Pearsall, author of Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later Eighteenth Century

Jenny Shaw is associate professor of history at the University of Alabama.

An astoundingly detailed intimate history of slavery, servitude, kinship, and legacy originating on one late seventeenth-century Barbados plantation. Shaw's remarkable gift as a historian in this book is her relentless labor in uncovering the transatlantic, gendered, racial, and sexual experiences and lived possibilities of enslaved and servant women from a British colonial archive that does not center Black women's perspectives. With meticulous care and rigor, Shaw exhaustively follows every trace of their records to show how these otherwise historically invisible women challenged imperial, racial, and patriarchal power and demanded their due. With The Women of Rendezvous, Jenny Shaw leads the field of gender and slavery into new methodological territory." - Marisa J. Fuentes, author of Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive"This book is gorgeously written from the very first sentence. Through her impeccable scholarship and creative skill, Shaw turns scattered references to enslaved and free women into a coherent story of early modern women's efforts toward family and freedom." - Sharon Block, author of Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America"Lucid and beautifully textured, this microhistory of a single family illuminates the ways that slavery shaped empire, in colonies and in the metropolis. The book achieves both rich granular coverage and an impressively transatlantic perspective. I am full of admiration for Shaw's elegant, impressive, and timely project." - Sarah M. S. Pearsall, author of Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later Eighteenth Century

Jenny Shaw is associate professor of history at the University of Alabama.

An astoundingly detailed intimate history of slavery, servitude, kinship, and legacy originating on one late seventeenth-century Barbados plantation. Shaw's remarkable gift as a historian in this book is her relentless labor in uncovering the transatlantic, gendered, racial, and sexual experiences and lived possibilities of enslaved and servant women from a British colonial archive that does not center Black women's perspectives. With meticulous care and rigor, Shaw exhaustively follows every trace of their records to show how these otherwise historically invisible women challenged imperial, racial, and patriarchal power and demanded their due. With The Women of Rendezvous, Jenny Shaw leads the field of gender and slavery into new methodological territory." - Marisa J. Fuentes, author of Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive"This book is gorgeously written from the very first sentence. Through her impeccable scholarship and creative skill, Shaw turns scattered references to enslaved and free women into a coherent story of early modern women's efforts toward family and freedom." - Sharon Block, author of Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America"Lucid and beautifully textured, this microhistory of a single family illuminates the ways that slavery shaped empire, in colonies and in the metropolis. The book achieves both rich granular coverage and an impressively transatlantic perspective. I am full of admiration for Shaw's elegant, impressive, and timely project." - Sarah M. S. Pearsall, author of Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later Eighteenth Century