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

Published Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2003] ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 310 pages) : illustrations, maps Series John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. 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 Summary 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 comparative analysis of slavery and slave property ownership along the Gold Coast in West Africa, revealing significant difference Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-292) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed September 12, 2016) Subject 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 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General. African Americans -- Economic conditions African Americans -- Land tenure African Americans -- Social conditions Economic history Property Enslaved persons -- Economic conditions Enslaved persons -- Emancipation Enslaved persons -- Family relationships Social conditions African Americans -- Economic conditions. African Americans -- Social conditions. Soziale Situation Sklaverei Abschaffung Wirtschaftliche Lage Slaven (arbeid) Eigendom. Gemeenschapszin. Posse da terra -- Século 19 -- Região sul;estados unidos. Negros -- Século 19 -- Região sul;estados unidos. Escravos -- Século 19 -- Região sul;estados unidos. Negros (condições socioeconômicas) -- Século 19 -- Região sul;estados unidos. SUBJECT Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century Subject Ghana Southern States United States -- Minorities -- History. USA -- Südstaaten Ghana Schwärze Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2003000212 ISBN 0807862134 9780807862131 0807827975 9780807827970

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