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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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
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.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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Summary: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 relationships among blacks, as well as on the more familiar struggles between the races, Penningroth exposes a dynamic process of community and family definition. He also includes a comparative analysis of slavery and slave property ownership along the Gold Coast in West Africa, revealing significant difference.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 310 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-292) and index.
ISBN:0807862134
9780807862131
0807827975
9780807827970
Language:English.
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed September 12, 2016).
Action Note:digitized

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