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Author Millward, Jessica, author.

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

Publication Info. Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Faulk family.
Faulk family.
Folks, Charity.
Folks, Charity.
Maryland -- Biography.
Maryland.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Slavery -- Maryland -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Slavery -- Maryland -- History -- 18th century.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Enslaved persons -- Maryland -- Social conditions.
Enslaved persons.
Social conditions.
African American women -- Maryland -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
African American women.
African American women -- Maryland -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Enslaved persons -- Maryland -- Biography.
Free African Americans -- Maryland -- Biography.
Free African Americans.
African American women -- Maryland -- Biography.
Chronological Term 1700-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
ISBN 9780820348797 (electronic book)
0820348791 (electronic book)
9780820331089
0820331082
9780820348780
0820348783