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

by Dylan C. Penningroth (Author) (edit contributors)

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In 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... read more

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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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  1. Dylan C. Penningroth (Author)

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