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

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: 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.
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