Finding Charity's folk [electronic resource] :enslaved and free black women in Maryland / by Jessica Millward.
By: Millward, Jessica.
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
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BookSeries: Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.Publisher: Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press, [2015] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780820348797; 0820348791.Subject(s): Faulk family | Folks, Charity | Maryland -- Biography | Slavery -- Maryland -- History -- 19th century | Slavery -- Maryland -- History -- 18th century | Slaves -- Maryland -- Social conditions | African American women -- Maryland -- Social conditions -- 19th century | African American women -- Maryland -- Social conditions -- 18th century | Slaves -- Maryland -- Biography | Free African Americans -- Maryland -- Biography | African American women -- Maryland -- BiographyGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 305.48/896073075209033 Online resources: Full text available: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue. The ghosts of slavery -- Introduction. Moving freedom, shaping slavery: enslaved women in Charity Folks's Maryland -- Reproduction and motherhood in slavery, 1757-1830 -- Beyond Charity: petitions for freedom and the black woman's body politic, 1780-1858 -- Commodities and kin: gender and family networking for freedom, 1780-1860 -- Moving slavery, shaping freedom: households and the gendering of poverty in the nineteenth century -- Conclusion. Memorials and reparations by the living -- Epilogue.
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