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Finding Charity's folk : enslaved and free black women in Maryland
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Finding Charity's folk : enslaved and free black women in Maryland / Jessica Millward.
ISBN
9780820331089 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780820348780 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780820348797 (e-book)
Publication
Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2015]
Copyright Notice Date
©2015
Physical Description
1 online resource (161 pages)
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Print version: Millward, Jessica. Finding Charity's folk : enslaved and free black women in Maryland. Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2015] Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 03, 2017
Series
Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
Bibliography
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.
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