Finding Charity's Folk : Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (161 pages)
- Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 .
- Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 .
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Ghosts of Slavery -- Introduction: Moving Freedom, Shaping Slavery: Enslaved Women in Charity Folks's Maryland -- CHAPTER 1 Reproduction and Motherhood in Slavery, 1757-1830 -- CHAPTER 2 Beyond Charity: Petitions for Freedom and the Black Woman's Body Politic, 1780-1858 -- CHAPTER 3 Commodities and Kin: Gender and Family Networking for Freedom, 1780-1860 -- CHAPTER 4 Moving Slavery, Shaping Freedom: Households and the Gendering of Poverty in the Nineteenth Century -- CONCLUSION: Memorials and Reparations by the Living -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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African American women - Maryland - Social conditions - 19th century.