The Claims of Kinfolk
Subtitle: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 9, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780807827970
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Black studies; Slavery & emancipation; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; History; Economic conditions; United States - State & Local - South; Social Science; Sociology; Central Southern states; Land tenure; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; United States - 19th Century; African-American/African Studies; Anthropology & U.S. Archaeology; American Studies; History/United States: Southern; Law & Legal History; AFRICA; Women's Studies/Gender Studies; African Americans; Africa - General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; 19th century; Social conditions; Southern States
First sentence: On a hot December day in 1874, one year Pompey Bacon's hearing before the Southern Claims Commission and exactly twelve years after the soldiers set him free, slavery officially ended in the West African city-states of Fante.