Chiara Theophile’s thesis examines the ways in which enslaved women’s clothing and dress served as a tool of gendered resistance to colonial rule. Drawing on original archival research she conducted at the Archives nationales d’outre-mer (Aix-en-Provence, France), Chiara analyses sumptuary laws in the French Antilles that sought to restrict and to delineate the boundaries of enslaved people’s clothing. Focusing in particular on the way that enslaved women found liberation through their (mis)appropriations of imposed dress, Chiara demonstrates the centrality of clothing and dress to individual personhood, agency, and collective liberation under dehumanizing conditions of domination.