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The claims of kinfolk : African American property and community in the nineteenth-century South /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill ; London :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2003]
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| Series: | John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Kinship and the slaves' economy from slavery to freedom
- One of the family? Abolition and social claims to property in the Gold Coast, West Africa, 1868-1930
- Slavery's other economy
- Family and property in Southern slavery
- In and out of court
- Remaking property
- Remaking kinship and community.