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The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South
The Claims of Kinfolk African American Property and Community in the NineteenthCentury South
Author: Dylan C. Penningroth
In 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 strug...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780807854761
ISBN-10: 080785476X
Publication Date: 9/22/2003
Pages: 192
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Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Book Type: Paperback
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