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In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina (Fred W Morrison Series in Southern Studies)

By Orville Vernon Burton

Book information

Year
1985
ISBN
0807816191, 9780807816196, 9780807864166
LCC
HN79.S62 E343 1985
Open Library ID
OL2862934M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8604709 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
480\503
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Burton traces the evolution of Edgefield County from the antebellum period through Reconstruction and beyond. From amassed information on every household in this large rural community, he tests the many generalizations about southern black and white families of this period and finds that they were strikingly similar. Wealth, rather than race or class, was the main factor that influenced family structure, and the matriarchal family was but a myth.

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