In my Father's house are many mansions: family and community in Edgefield, South Carolina
(2000)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : The University of North Carolina Press : Made available through hoopla, 2000
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780807864166 (electronic bk.) MWT11717723, 0807864161 (electronic bk.) 11717723
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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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