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Millward, Jessica, author.

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

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

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource (161 pages)
	text rdacontent
	computer rdamedia
	online resource rdacarrier
Series	Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
	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.
Note	Description based on print version record.
Subject	Folks, Charity.
	Faulk family.
	African American women -- Maryland -- Biography.
	Free African Americans -- Maryland -- Biography.
	Slaves -- Maryland -- Biography.
	African American women -- Maryland -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
	African American women -- Maryland -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
	Slaves -- Maryland -- Social conditions.
	Slavery -- Maryland -- History -- 18th century.
	Slavery -- Maryland -- History -- 19th century.
	Maryland -- Biography.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Millward, Jessica. Finding Charity's folk : enslaved and free black women in Maryland. Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2015] xxii, 130 pages ; 24 cm. Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900 9780820331089
ISBN	9780820331089 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	9780820348780 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	9780820348797 (electronic bk.)