Finding Charity's folk : enslaved and free black women in Maryland - Millward, Jessica (Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, 2015)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Keywords: 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; Electronic books