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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777594603321

Autore

Penningroth Dylan C

Titolo

The claims of kinfolk [[electronic resource] ] : African American property and community in the nineteenth-century South / / Dylan C. Penningroth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003

ISBN

979-88-908752-9-7

0-8078-6213-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Disciplina

333.33/5/08996073075

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-292) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Introduction: Kinship and the Slaves' Economy from Slavery to Freedom; CHAPTER 1 One of the Family?: Abolition and Social Claims to Property in the Gold Coast, West Africa, 1868-1930; CHAPTER 2 Slavery's Other Economy; CHAPTER 3 Family and Property in Southern Slavery; CHAPTER 4 In and Out of Court; CHAPTER 5 Remaking Property; CHAPTER 6 Remaking Kinship and Community; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y



Sommario/riassunto

Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South