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cquilt-19316	Zlotnik, Jessica	Gender, Oppression & Resistance in Caribbean Slave Society	2013	13	.pdf	application/pdf	4728	202	50	Their financial independence meant that there was a greater tendency for them to participate in the market economy as autonomous agents giving them more freedom than their rural counterparts.11 Since powerful white men dominated the centre of the urban economy, many white women operated on the periphery as owners and managers of taverns, sex-houses, and slave rental services.12 While the urban economy provided white women with greater independence in a society based on patriarchal power, it could also work to further subjugate women of colour. The concerns articulated by Lewis do not appear to be unusual indicating that slave women did in fact play an important role in resisting their enslavement.	cache/cquilt-19316.pdf	txt/cquilt-19316.txt