Finding Charity's Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland by Jessica Millward
Finding Charity's Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland

Jessica Millward

Finding Charity's Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland

Jessica Millward with Manisha Sinha, Richard Newman, Patrick Rael

160 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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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 manus...

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