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Author Penningroth, Dylan C., author.

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

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

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Description 1 online resource (x, 310 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-292) and index.
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 -- Framily and property in Southern slavery -- In and out of court -- Remaking property -- Remaking kinship and community.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details 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
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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.
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Subject African Americans -- Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
African Americans.
Southern States.
Economic conditions.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Social conditions.
African Americans -- Land tenure -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Land tenure.
History.
Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
Enslaved persons.
Enslaved persons -- Family relationships -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Enslaved persons -- Family relationships.
Property -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Property.
Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Ghana -- History -- 19th century.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation.
Ghana.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- British colonies.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- French colonies.
Property -- Ghana -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Penningroth, Dylan C. Claims of kinfolk. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003 0807827975 080785476X (DLC) 2003000212 (OCoLC)51535775
ISBN 0807862134 (electronic book)
9780807862131 (electronic book)
0807827975 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780807827970 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
080785476X (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780807854761 (paperback ; alkaline paper)