The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

by Dylan C . Penningroth (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $50.89

  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.