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The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South
Author(s): Dylan C. Penningroth (Author)
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date: 30 Sept. 2003
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 080785476X
- ISBN-13: 9780807827970
Book Description
This work uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves. Dylan C. Penningroth seeks to shed new light on African American family and community life from the heydey of plantation slavery to the “freedom generation” of the 1870s.
