| Finding Charity''s Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland Subjects: Folks Charity; African American women -- Maryland -- Biography; Free African Americans -- Maryland -- Biography; Faulk family; Slaves -- Maryland -- Biography; African American women -- Maryland -- Social conditions -- 18th century; African American wome; 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. JESSICA MILLWARD is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. |