Millward, Jessica,
Finding Charity's folk : enslaved and free black women in Maryland / Jessica Millward. - 1 online resource (161 pages) - Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900 . - Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900. .
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.
9780820348797 (e-book)
Folks, Charity.
Faulk family.
African American women--Maryland--Biography.
Free African Americans--Maryland--Biography.
Slaves--Maryland--Biography.
African American women--Social conditions--Maryland--18th century.
African American women--Social conditions--Maryland--19th century.
Slaves--Social conditions.--Maryland
Slavery--History--Maryland--18th century.
Slavery--History--Maryland--19th century.
Maryland--Biography.
Electronic books.
E185.93.M2 / M57 2015eb
305.48/896073075209033
Finding Charity's folk : enslaved and free black women in Maryland / Jessica Millward. - 1 online resource (161 pages) - Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900 . - Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900. .
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.
9780820348797 (e-book)
Folks, Charity.
Faulk family.
African American women--Maryland--Biography.
Free African Americans--Maryland--Biography.
Slaves--Maryland--Biography.
African American women--Social conditions--Maryland--18th century.
African American women--Social conditions--Maryland--19th century.
Slaves--Social conditions.--Maryland
Slavery--History--Maryland--18th century.
Slavery--History--Maryland--19th century.
Maryland--Biography.
Electronic books.
E185.93.M2 / M57 2015eb
305.48/896073075209033