The individuals in focus in the essays of this section include formerly enslaved individuals who rose to high positions in society after emancipation, as María Elisa Velázquez demonstrates in the case of Juan Correa, or free descendants of enslaved persons, as in Crosby-Arnold's discussion of Joseph Bologne de Saint-Georges, or the teaching and missionary career of Catherine MulgraveZimmermann, as examined by Maureen Warner-Lewis. Similarly, Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua was able to escape from enslavement and he became one of the first Africans educated in a college in the United States of America, as discussed by Bruno Véras. The remaining cases depict individuals who owned and trafficked in enslaved people, as Vanessa Oliveira reveals in the life of Dona Ana Joaquina dos Santos Silva of Luanda. Edward Alpers focuses specifically on children caught in the slave trade in East Africa and the Indian Ocean. The essays also look at fugitives (Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec and Mary Mitchell) and eunuchs in the Ottoman Empire (Özgül Özdemir). The struggle for autonomy and emancipation is a common theme, as in the Brazilian cases examined by Daniela Cavalheiro and Nielson Bezerra as well as the Sierra-Leone case of Fuseng-be presented by Suzanne Schwarz.