There are few references in African societies or in those of the Americas to the occupations of the female enslaved population, partly because domestic work was  
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[^0]:    2 Arquivo Nacional Angola (ANA), Codex. 3160, Benguela slave records, 1855; Almanak statistico da Província de Angola e suas dependências, Luanda, 1852, p. 54.
3 ANA, Codex 3159, Registro de escravos, Caconda, 1854.