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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About the author
Orville Vernon Burton is professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His books include ‘A Gentleman and an Officer’: A Military and Social History of James B. Griffin’s Civil War.
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 501 ● ISBN 9780807864166 ● File size 5.3 MB ● Publisher The University of North Carolina Press ● City Chapel Hill ● Country US ● Published 2000 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6468863 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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