The Claims of Kinfolk African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South |
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| Author:
| Penningroth, Dylan C. |
| Series title: | The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8078-5476-1 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2003 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $82.00AUD $57.00 |
Book Description:
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This work uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves. Dylan C. Penningroth seeks to shed new light on African American family and community life from the heydey of plantation slavery to the ""freedom generation"" of the 1870s.
This work uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves. Dylan C. Penningroth seeks to shed new light on African American family and community life from the heydey of plantation slavery to the ""freedom generation"" of the 1870s.