Finding Charity's folk : enslaved and free black women in Maryland / Jessica Millward.
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TextSeries: Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900Publisher: Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (161 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780820348797 (e-book)
- Folks, Charity
- Faulk family
- African American women -- Maryland -- Biography
- Free African Americans -- Maryland -- Biography
- Slaves -- Maryland -- Biography
- African American women -- Maryland -- Social conditions -- 18th century
- African American women -- Maryland -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Slaves -- Maryland -- Social conditions
- Slavery -- Maryland -- History -- 18th century
- Slavery -- Maryland -- History -- 19th century
- Maryland -- Biography
- 305.48/896073075209033 23
- E185.93.M2 M57 2015eb
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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