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

Name: Claims of Kinfolk African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South
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ISBN: 9780807854761

ISBN-10: 080785476X

ISBN-13: 9780807854761

Edition: 2003

Authors: Dylan C. Penningroth

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In 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 differences between the African and American contexts. Property ownership was widespread among slaves across the…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 9/22/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



Introduction: 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


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index