Author: Lauren R. Silberman
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 162619811X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The daring women of Maryland made their mark on history as spies, would-be queens and fiery suffragettes. Sarah Wilson escaped indentured servitude in Frederick by impersonating the queen's sister. In Cumberland, Sallie Pollock smuggled letters for top Confederate officials. Baltimore journalist Marguerite Harrison snuck into Russia to report conditions there after World War I. From famous figures like Harriet Tubman to unsung heroines like "Lady Law" Violet Hill Whyte, author Lauren R. Silberman introduces Maryland's most tenacious and adventurous women.
Wild Women of Maryland: Grit & Gumption in the Free State
Author: Lauren R. Silberman
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 162619811X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The daring women of Maryland made their mark on history as spies, would-be queens and fiery suffragettes. Sarah Wilson escaped indentured servitude in Frederick by impersonating the queen's sister. In Cumberland, Sallie Pollock smuggled letters for top Confederate officials. Baltimore journalist Marguerite Harrison snuck into Russia to report conditions there after World War I. From famous figures like Harriet Tubman to unsung heroines like "Lady Law" Violet Hill Whyte, author Lauren R. Silberman introduces Maryland's most tenacious and adventurous women.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 162619811X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The daring women of Maryland made their mark on history as spies, would-be queens and fiery suffragettes. Sarah Wilson escaped indentured servitude in Frederick by impersonating the queen's sister. In Cumberland, Sallie Pollock smuggled letters for top Confederate officials. Baltimore journalist Marguerite Harrison snuck into Russia to report conditions there after World War I. From famous figures like Harriet Tubman to unsung heroines like "Lady Law" Violet Hill Whyte, author Lauren R. Silberman introduces Maryland's most tenacious and adventurous women.
Finding Charity’s Folk
Author: Jessica Millward
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820348791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820348791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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.
Women Workers in Maryland
Author:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Maryland Women in the Civil War
Author: Claudia Floyd
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625840195
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
This lively Civil War history chronicles the harrowing and heroic lives of Maryland women caught in the bloody conflict. On July 9, 1864, young Mamie Tyler crouched in a cellar as Union sharpshooters above traded volleys with Confederate forces. After six excruciating hours, she emerged to nurse the wounded from the Battle of Monocacy. This was life in a border state, and the terrifying reality for the women of Maryland, during the Civil War. Drawing on letters and memoirs, author Claudia Floyd relates how Mamie and so many other women survived the war and contributed to the cause of their chosen side. Western Maryland experienced some of the worst carnage of the war, and women turned their homes into hospitals for the wounded of Antietam, South Mountain and Gettysburg. In Baltimore, secessionists such as Hetty Carry fled arrest by Union troops. The Eastern Shore's Anna Ella Carroll plotted military strategy for the Union, and Harriet Tubman led hundreds of slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad. These and other stories present a fascinating and nuanced portrait of Maryland women in the Civil War.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625840195
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
This lively Civil War history chronicles the harrowing and heroic lives of Maryland women caught in the bloody conflict. On July 9, 1864, young Mamie Tyler crouched in a cellar as Union sharpshooters above traded volleys with Confederate forces. After six excruciating hours, she emerged to nurse the wounded from the Battle of Monocacy. This was life in a border state, and the terrifying reality for the women of Maryland, during the Civil War. Drawing on letters and memoirs, author Claudia Floyd relates how Mamie and so many other women survived the war and contributed to the cause of their chosen side. Western Maryland experienced some of the worst carnage of the war, and women turned their homes into hospitals for the wounded of Antietam, South Mountain and Gettysburg. In Baltimore, secessionists such as Hetty Carry fled arrest by Union troops. The Eastern Shore's Anna Ella Carroll plotted military strategy for the Union, and Harriet Tubman led hundreds of slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad. These and other stories present a fascinating and nuanced portrait of Maryland women in the Civil War.
Women of Achievement in Maryland History
Author: Carolyn B. Stegman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780972436205
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780972436205
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Women in Maryland State Government
Author: Maryland Commission on the Status of Women
Publisher:
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Category : Women in public life
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Women in public life
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Notable Maryland Women
Author: Winifred Gertrude Helmes
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Women in Maryland Industries
Author: United States. Women's Bureau
Publisher:
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Category : Hours of labor
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Hours of labor
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Maryland Women who Dare : Paving the Way to the New Millenium
Author: Maryland Women's History Project
Publisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Maryland Women
Author: Margie Hersh Luckett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
Book Description