The claims of kinfolk : African American property and community in the nineteenth-century South /

The claims of kinfolk : African American property and community in the nineteenth-century South /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Penningroth, Dylan C., author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2003] ©2003
Description:	1 online resource (x, 310 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language:	English
Series:	John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Subject:	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 -- Family relationships -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century. Property -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century. Slaves -- Emancipation -- Ghana -- History -- 19th century. Property -- Ghana -- History -- 19th century. African Americans -- Economic conditions. African Americans -- Land tenure. African Americans -- Social conditions. Economic history. Property. Slaves -- Economic conditions. Slaves -- Emancipation. Slaves -- Family relationships. Social conditions Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century. Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century. Ghana. Southern States. Electronic book. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11297448

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ISBN:	0807862134 9780807862131 0807827975 9780807827970 080785476X 9780807854761 0807827975 9780807827970
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-292) and index. Restrictions unspecified Limited Users and Download Restrictions may Apply, ProQuest 325 User Credits. Available using University of Exeter Username and Password. Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. 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 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed September 12, 2016).
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.
Other form:	Print version: Penningroth, Dylan C. Claims of kinfolk. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003 0807827975 080785476X
Standard no.:	9780807827970

Table of 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.