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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, 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.
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History, Social conditions, Rural conditions, Race relations, Family, South carolina, genealogy, South carolina, history, Southern states, civilization, Families, Slaves, Slaveholders, Freedmen, Women slaves, Emancipation, DwellingsPlaces
Edgefield (S.C.), South Carolina, EdgefieldTimes
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In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina
2000, University of North Carolina Press
in English
0807864161 9780807864166
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In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
March 27, 1987, The University of North Carolina Press
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in English
0807841838 9780807841839
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In my Father's house are many mansions: family and community in Edgefield, South Carolina
1985, University of North Carolina Press
in English
0807816191 9780807816196
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"Midway between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean, Edgefield County (a "district" until 1868) was on the western border of South Carolina, separated from Georgia by the Savannah River (see Map I)."
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"Midway between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean, Edgefield County (a "district" until 1868) was on the western border of South Carolina, separated from Georgia by the Savannah River (see Map I)."
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