Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society explores the political and social history of the Dutch colony of Suriname-a place where Jews, most of Iberian origin, established the largest Jewish agricultural community in the world and enjoyed various liberties, including the right to convert their slaves to Judaism.

Introduction. Jews, Slavery, and Suriname in the Atlantic World
Chapter 1. A Jewish Village in a Slave Society
Chapter 2. The Paradox of Privilege
Chapter 3. From Immigrants to Rooted Migrants
Chapter 4. The Emergence of Eurafrican Jews
Chapter 5. The Quest for Eurafrican Jewish Equality
Chapter 6. Purim in the Public Eye
Chapter 7. The Abolition of Jewish Communal Autonomy
Conclusion. True Settlers in a Slave Society
Appendix
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments

Aviva Ben-Ur is Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is author of Sephardic Jews in America: A Diasporic History.