Author: William KiltyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Index to the Laws of Maryland, from the Year 1818 to 1825, Inclusive
Author: William KiltyCrafting the Overseer's Image
Author: William E. WiethoffPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570036460
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The first book-length study of the overseer in four decades, Wiethoff's study bridges historical, legal, and rhetorical scholarship to present a provocative investigation into the multifaceted roles of this oft-forgotten figure in plantation society. Wiethoff canvasses the period from 1650 through 1865 and across a southern expanse that stretches to include the Upper and Deep South. Overseers left scant written evidence about their lives and times, but Wiethoff unearths characterizations constructed by friends and enemies, neighbors and strangers. He also mines the legal record to gauge the impact of legislative and case law rhetoric on public memory.
Laws of Maryland Made and Passed at a Session of Assembly
Author: MarylandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressBibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: The Catalogue of the Public Library of Victoria
Author: Public Library of VictoriaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
A Guide to the Principal Sources for American Civilization, 1800-1900, in the City of New York
Author: Harry James CarmanPublisher: New York, Columbia U. P
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Finding Charity’s Folk
Author: Jessica MillwardPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820331082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
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.