Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue. The ghosts of slavery
  • Introduction. Moving freedom, shaping slavery: enslaved women in Charity Folks's Maryland
  • Reproduction and motherhood in slavery, 1757-1830
  • Beyond Charity: petitions for freedom and the black woman's body politic, 1780-1858
  • Commodities and kin: gender and family networking for freedom, 1780-1860
  • Moving slavery, shaping freedom: households and the gendering of poverty in the nineteenth century
  • Conclusion. Memorials and reparations by the living
  • Epilogue.