, performing roles similar to those of the enslaved persons known as escravos de ganho who sold items to earn money in the streets of Salvador, Buenos Aires, Cartagena and Havana, also enjoying a certain autonomy in spite of their servile condition (Miller, 1988, p. 271; Karasch, 1987; Dantas, 2008; Wheat, 2016; Schultz, 2017). Despite the numerical predominance of enslaved females in