[PDF.78nr] 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 Nineteenth-Century South

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 | #210952 in Books |  The University of North Carolina Press |  2003-09-22 |  2003-09-22 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x.73 x6.13l,1.05 | File type: PDF | 192 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| I Met The Author!|By Ronald J. Gerts|I bought this book after meeting the author and discussing his work with him. It's a great book. It won a well-deserved McArthur Genius Award for Penningroth. His work is based on original research into documents in the National Archives that have been overlooked for decades. He uses the records of property claims made by slaves after the ci| |"The Claims of Kinfolk makes a fine, original contribution to comparative nineteenth-century African American history. I'm particularly grateful for Penningroth's economic analysis of slave property "in materia as well as cultural and personal terms. He opens

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 compara...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South   |  Dylan C. Penningroth. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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