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

Published Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource Series Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900 Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900. 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 Summary Finding Charity's Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and numerous manuscript documents from a diversity of archives, Jessica Millward skillfully brings together African American social and gender history to provide a new means of using biography as a historical genre. Millward opens with a striking discussion about how researching the life of a single enslaved woman, Charity Folks, transforms our understanding of slavery and freedom in Revolutionary America. For African American women such as Folks, freedom, like enslavement, was tied to a bondwoman's reproductive capacities. Their offspring were used to perpetuate the slave economy. Finding loopholes in the law meant that enslaved women could give birth to and raise free children. For Millward, Folks demonstrates the fluidity of the boundaries between slavery and freedom, which was due largely to the gendered space occupied by enslaved women. The gendering of freedom influenced notions of liberty, equality, and race in what became the new nation and had profound implications for African American women's future interactions with the state Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Subject Faulk family. Folks, Charity. Faulk family Folks, Charity Faulk family Folks, Charity Slavery -- Maryland -- History -- 19th century Slavery -- Maryland -- History -- 18th century Enslaved persons -- Maryland -- Social conditions African American women -- Maryland -- Social conditions -- 19th century African American women -- Maryland -- Social conditions -- 18th century Enslaved persons -- Maryland -- Biography Free African Americans -- Maryland -- Biography African American women -- Maryland -- Biography HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century. African American women African American women -- Social conditions Free African Americans Slavery Enslaved persons Enslaved persons -- Social conditions Maryland -- Biography Maryland Genre/Form Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 2015023630 ISBN 9780820348797 0820348791

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