The claims of kinfolk : African American property and community in the nineteenth-century South

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In The Claims of Kinfolk, Dylan Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on African American family and community life from the heyday of plantation slavery to the ""freedom generation"" of the 1870s. By focusing on...

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Main Author: Penningroth, Dylan C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, 2003
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Subjects:
African Americans > Southern States > Economic conditions > 19th century.
African Americans > Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
African Americans > Land tenure > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Enslaved persons > Southern States > Economic conditions > 19th century.
Enslaved persons > Family relationships > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Property > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Ghana > History > 19th century.
Property > Ghana > History > 19th century.
Southern States > Economic conditions > 19th century.
Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
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