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

Label

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

Title remainder

African American property and community in the nineteenth-century South

Statement of responsibility

Dylan C. Penningroth

Creator

• Penningroth, Dylan C

Author

• Penningroth, Dylan C

Subject

• Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
• History
• Property -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
• Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
• Slaves -- Family relationships -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
• African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
• African Americans -- Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
• Slaves -- Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
• Slaves -- Emancipation -- Ghana -- History -- 19th century
• African Americans -- Land tenure -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
• Property -- Ghana -- History -- 19th century

Genre

• History

Language

eng

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

Member of

• John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

333.33/5/08996073075

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

E185.8

LC item number

.P39 2003eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture