Communities of kinship
Subtitle: antebellum families and the settlement of the cotton frontier
By: Carolyn Earle Billingsley.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Keesee family -- History.; Kinship -- Southern States -- History.; Patrilineal kinship -- Southern States -- History.; Migration, Internal -- Southern States -- History.; Land settlement patterns -- Southern States -- History.; Southern States -- Genealogy.; Southern States -- History.; Southern States -- Social life and customs.
Genres: Genealogy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-198) and index.
Table of contents: title: Theory, methodology, and evidence; title: Kinship, migration, and settlement patterns; title: Kinship and religion; title: Kinship's role in economic and political power; title: The kinship group in the postbellum era.