The claims of kinfolk
Subtitle: African American property and community in the nineteenth-century South
By: Dylan C. Penningroth.
Series: The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: 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.; Slaves -- Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.; Slaves -- Southern States -- Family relationships -- History -- 19th century.; Property -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.; Slaves -- Emancipation -- Ghana -- History -- 19th century.; Property -- Ghana -- History -- 19th century.; Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.; Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Description: "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 differences between the African and American contexts."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-292) and index.