Finding Charity's folk : enslaved and free black women in Maryland / Jessica Millward.
Material type:
TextSeries: Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900Publication details: Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]Description: xxii, 130 pages : ill., port. ; 23 cmISBN: - 9780820331089
- 0820331082
- 9780820348780
- 0820348783
- 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
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Library Company of Philadelphia | Ii 4 A5389.O | Available | 294171 |
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.
Gift of the publisher.