Finding Charity's Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland PDF
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Finding Charity’s Folk Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Published in Cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia’s Program in African American History Series Editors Richard S. Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology Patrick Rael, Bowdoin College Manisha Sinha, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Advisory Board Edward Baptist, Cornell University Christopher Brown, Columbia University Vincent Carretta, University of Maryland Laurent Dubois, Duke University Erica Armstrong Dunbar, University of Delaware and the Library Company of Philadelphia Douglas Egerton, LeMoyne College Leslie Harris, Emory University Joanne Pope Melish, University of Kentucky Sue Peabody, Washington State University, Vancouver Erik Seeman, State University of New York, Buffalo John Stauffer, Harvard University Finding Charity’s Folk enslaved and free black women in maryland Jessica Millward The University of Georgia Press Athens & London This publication is made possible in part through a grant from the University of California, Irvine. © 2015 by the University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 www.ugapress.org All rights reserved Set in 10/13 Adobe Caslon Pro by Kaelin Chappell Broaddus Printed and bound by Sheridan Books, Inc. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Most University of Georgia Press titles are available from popular e-book vendors. Printed in the United States of America 19 18 17 16 15 p 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Millward, Jessica. Finding Charity’s folk : enslaved and free black women in Maryland / by Jessica Millward. pages cm. — (Race in the Atlantic world, 1700–1900) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8203-3108-9 (hardcover : alk. paper) — isbn 978-0-8203-4878-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) — isbn 978-0-8203-4879-7 (e-book) 1. Folks, Charity. 2. African American women—Maryland—Biography. 3. Free African Americans—Maryland—Biography. 4. Faulk family. 5. Slaves—Maryland—Biography. 6. African American women— Maryland—Social conditions—18th century. 7. African American women—Maryland—Social conditions—19th century. 8. Slaves— Maryland—Social conditions. 9. Slavery—Maryland—History— 18th century. 10. Slavery—Maryland—History—19th century. 11. Maryland—Biography. I. Title. e185.93.m2m57 2015 305.48'896073075209033—dc23 2015023630 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available For Charity, for bearing all things, believing all things, hoping all things, and enduring all things. —i corinthians 13:7 This page intentionally left blank [African Americans] are the only folk so great in number who have added to their original racial possessions the language, the literature, the civilization, the culture, and the religion of an alien people. They seem a sort of crucible in which God is working out by experiment the problem of the adjustment of races. —shelton hale bishop, The Romance of the Negro This page intentionally left blank contents Acknowledgments xi Prologue: The Ghosts of Slavery xvii Introduction Moving Freedom, Shaping Slavery: Enslaved Women in Charity Folks’s Maryland 1 Chapter 1 Reproduction and Motherhood in Slavery, 1757–1830 14 Chapter 2 Beyond Charity: Petitions for Freedom and the Black Woman’s Body Politic, 1780–1858 27 Chapter 3 Commodities and Kin: Gender and Family Networking for Freedom, 1780–1860 41 Chapter 4 Moving Slavery, Shaping Freedom: Households and the Gendering of Poverty in the Nineteenth Century 53 Conclusion Memorials and Reparations by the Living 67 Epilogue 73 Notes 75 Bibliography 95 Index 119
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