Finding Charity's folk : enslaved and free black women in Maryland /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Millward, Jessica (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2015]
Series:Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
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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.