Introduction: Re(dis)covering and Recreating the Cultural Milieu of Margaret Garner -- Part I. Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Gendered Resistance / Delores M. Walters -- A Mother’s Arithmetic : Elizabeth Clark Gaines’s Journey from Slavery to Freedom / Mary E. Frederickson -- Coerced but Not Subdued : Gendered Resistance of Women Escaping Slavery / Cheryl Janifer La Roche -- Secret Weapons : Black Women Insurgents on Abolitionist Battlegrounds / Veta Tucker -- Enslaved Women’s Resistance and Survival Strategies in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s "The Slave Mother : A Tale of the Ohio" and Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Margaret Garner / Kristine Yohe -- Can Quadroon Balls Represent Acquiescence or Resistance? / Diana Williams -- Part II. Global Slavery, Healing, and New Visions in the Twenty-First Century -- Freedom Just Might Be Possible : Suraj Kali’s Moment of Decision / Jolene Smith -- Marginality and Allegories of Gendered Resistance : Experiences from Southern Yemen / Huda Seif -- Resurrecting Chica da Silva : Gender, Race, and Nation in Brazilian Popular Culture / Raquel L. de Souza -- The Psychological Aftereffects of Racialized Sexual Violence / Cathy McDaniels-Wilson -- Art and Memory : Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit : A conversation with Carolyn Mazloomi, Nailah Randall Bellinger, Olivia Cousins, S. Pearl Sharp, and Catherine Roma.