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Finding Charity's folk, enslaved and free black women in Maryland, Jessica Millward

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Finding Charity's folk, enslaved and free black women in Maryland, Jessica Millward

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Finding Charity's folk

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

905685793

Responsibility statement

Jessica Millward

Series statement

Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900

Sub title

enslaved and free black women in Maryland

Table Of 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

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