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Finding Charity s Folk
Author | : Jessica Millward |
Publsiher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2015-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820348780 |
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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.
Finding Charity s Folk
Author | : Jessica Millward |
Publsiher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2015-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820348797 |
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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.
The Souls of Womenfolk
Author | : Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2021-09-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781469663616 |
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Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.S. Lower South on the eve of the Civil War, Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh traces a bold history of the interior lives of bondwomen as they carved out an existence for themselves and their families amid the horrors of American slavery. With particular attention to maternity, sex, and other gendered aspects of women's lives, she documents how bondwomen crafted female-centered cultures that shaped the religious consciousness and practices of entire enslaved communities. Indeed, gender as well as race co-constituted the Black religious subject, she argues—requiring a shift away from understandings of "slave religion" as a gender-amorphous category. Women responded on many levels—ethically, ritually, and communally—to southern slavery. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Wells-Oghoghomeh shows how they remembered, reconfigured, and innovated beliefs and practices circulating between Africa and the Americas. In this way, she redresses the exclusion of enslaved women from the American religious narrative. Challenging conventional institutional histories, this book opens a rare window onto the spiritual strivings of one of the most remarkable and elusive groups in the American experience.
American Folklore Foundation Act
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Folk literature |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105045487001 |
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American Folklife Foundation Act
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Education |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Folklore |
ISBN | : LOC:00185772093 |
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Reauthorization of the National Foundation for the Arts and the Humanities Act and the Museum Services Act
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1124 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Federal aid to museums |
ISBN | : PSU:000015501486 |
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In Dependence
Author | : Jacqueline Beatty |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2023-04-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781479812127 |
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"Despite legal, social, and economic restrictions on their rights and power, women in the revolutionary era were able to advocate for themselves and express a relative degree of power over their own lives not in spite of their dependent status, but because of it"--
The People of Rose Hill
Author | : Lucy Maddox |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2021-09-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781421440958 |
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The Diary of a Lady -- The Forman World -- House and Farm -- The Enslaved Community -- On Sassafras Neck -- Home and Exile -- World's End.