F
Families: composition of, 10 -11;
fictive reconstruction of, 6 ;
importance of, to slave life, 4 -5, 143 , 219 -20n4;
life of, outside master's household, 122 -24, 126 ;
manumission strategies of, 79 -85;
preserving unity of, 201 ;
prominence of women in, 205 ;
separation of children from, 119 , 120 ;
and slave mobility, 46 ;
stresses on, 203 -4, 242 -43n4;
variability in circumstances of, 143 -44.
See also Marriage(s)
Febres, Villaroel, 52
Fenoaltea, Stefano, 219 n3
Ferdinand VII (king of Spain), 14
Fertility rate, 49 -50
Fields, Barbara, 203 , 242 -43n4
Flores Galindo, Alberto, 90 , 241 n22
Frazier, E, Franklin, 219 n4
Free blacks: as artisans, 213 ;
care of slave children of, 118 -19;
in colonial army, 85 -86;
competition with slaves, 84 , 114 ;
economic position of, 244 n13;
financial hardship of, 30 , 31 ;
imprisonment of, 18 , 125 , 188 , 189 , 190 , 195 ;
indispensability of, 1 -2;
marriage to slaves, 144 -47, 145 , 146 , 148 , 151 -52, 153 ;
population of, 38 ;
social status of, 103 -5;
struggle for subsistence, 18 -19;
treatment as slaves, after abolition, 194 -95
French colonies, manumission in, 244 n13