Finding Charity's folk : enslaved and free black women in Maryland /

Millward, Jessica,

Finding Charity's folk : enslaved and free black women in Maryland / Jessica Millward. - 1 online resource - 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 (electronic bk.) 0820348791 (electronic bk.)


Faulk family.
Folks, Charity.
Faulk family.
Folks, Charity.
Faulk family.
Folks, Charity.


1700-1899


Slavery--History--Maryland--19th century.
Slavery--History--Maryland--18th century.
Slaves--Social conditions.--Maryland
African American women--Social conditions--Maryland--19th century.
African American women--Social conditions--Maryland--18th century.
Slaves--Maryland--Biography.
Free African Americans--Maryland--Biography.
African American women--Maryland--Biography.
Esclaves--Conditions sociales.--Maryland
Noires américaines--Conditions sociales--Maryland--19e siècle.
Noires américaines--Conditions sociales--Maryland--18e siècle.
Noirs américains affranchis--Maryland--Biographies.
Noires américaines--Maryland--Biographies.
HISTORY--United States--19th Century.
African American women.
African American women--Social conditions.
Free African Americans.
Slavery.
Slaves.
Slaves--Social conditions.


Maryland--Biography.
Maryland--Biographies.
Maryland.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
History.

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