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
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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. This detailed treatment of the economics, show more patterns, and rhythms of rural life, including analyses of religion and religious themes in the agrarian community, will advance our understanding of rural history and race relations in the South. show lessTags
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Orville Vernon Burton is University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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- 306.09757 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Social history North America Southeastern U.S.
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- HN79 .S62 .E343 — Social sciences Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform Social history and conditions. Social problems. By region or country
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