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The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South Paperback - 2003

by Penningroth, Dylan C

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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.

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The University of North Carolina Press, 2003-09-21. Paperback. New. 6x0x9. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages.
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On a hot December day in 1874, one year Pompey Bacon's hearing before the Southern Claims Commission and exactly twelve years after the soldiers set him free, slavery officially ended in the West African city-states of Fante.

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  • Choice, 04/01/2004, Page 1537

About the author

Dylan C. Penningroth is associate professor of history at Northwestern University. In 2012 he was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.