Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier

by Carolyn Earle Billingsley (Author)

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  2004

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  Billingsley shows how the analytic category of kinship can add new dimensions to our understanding of the American South. In this text she studies a southern family to show how the biological, legal and fictive kinship ties between him and some 7000 of his descendants helped shape the interior South.