In My Father's House Are Many Mansions - Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield! South Carolina

Product details

• Authors: Orville Vernon Burton, Orville W. Burton, Burton Orville Vernon, Vernon Burton Orville
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1987
• EAN: 9780807841839
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-4183-9
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 38 mm
• Series: Fred W. Morrison Series in Sou; Fred W. Morrison Series in Sou
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous