The claims of kinfolk

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"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 differences between the African and American contexts."--Jacket.

subjects: African Americans,  Economic conditions,  Emancipation,  Family relationships,  History,  Land tenure,  Property,  Slaves,  Social conditions,  Conditions économiques,  Sklaverei,  Schwarze,  Propriété,  Negros (condições socioeconômicas),  Posse da terra,  Südstaaten,  Negros,  Slaven (arbeid),  Economic history,  Noirs américains,  Affranchissement,  Conditions sociales,  Relations familiales,  Eigendom,  Abschaffung,  Minorities,  Esclaves,  Wirtschaftliche Lage,  Histoire,  Gemeenschapszin,  Soziale Situation,  Escravos,  Negers,  Terres,  African americans, southern states,  Slaves, emancipation, united states,  Southern states, social conditions,  Southern states, economic conditions,  Material cultuer

Places: Ghana,  Southern States

Times: 19th century