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Author:

Millward, Jessica, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015037727

Title:

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

Publisher:

The University of Georgia Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xxii, 130 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Folks, Charity.
African American women--Maryland--Biography.
Free African Americans--Maryland--Biography.
Faulk family.
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.
Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900

ISBN:

0820348783
9780820348780
0820331082
9780820331089

OCLC:

(OCoLC)905685793

LCCN:

2015023630

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)