Finding Charity's folk : enslaved and free black women in Maryland / Jessica Millward.
Material type:
TextSeries: Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900Publisher: Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780820348797
- 0820348791
- Faulk family
- Folks, Charity
- Faulk family
- Folks, Charity
- Faulk family
- Folks, Charity
- Maryland -- Biography
- Slavery -- Maryland -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery -- Maryland -- History -- 18th century
- Slaves -- Maryland -- Social conditions
- African American women -- Maryland -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- African American women -- Maryland -- Social conditions -- 18th century
- Slaves -- Maryland -- Biography
- Free African Americans -- Maryland -- Biography
- African American women -- Maryland -- Biography
- HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
- African American women
- African American women -- Social conditions
- Free African Americans
- Slavery
- Slaves
- Slaves -- Social conditions
- Maryland
- 1700-1899
- 305.48/896073075209033 23
- E185.93.M2 M57 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.
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