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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In his ``total history'' approach Burton examines the development of a large ru ral community from the late antebellum period to the late 19th century. Home to great Southern families, Edgefield was also a community of yeomen farm ers, free blacks, slaves and freedmen, and town residents. By examining ev ery household in the area over time, Burton discovers that wealth, more than race or class, shaped family struc ture for black and white alike. The ma triarchal black family, Burton shows, was not a product of slavery or emanci pation; it appeared in postbellum towns where only black women could find work. This conclusion challenges many recent interpretations about the black family in freedom. This intensive study invites similar explorations of other communities. Essential for Southern history and major university collec tions. Randall M. Miller, History Dept., St. Joseph's Univ., Philadelphia
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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A highly quantified, computerized, and methodologically sophisticated study.
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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). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
white female household heads, black female household heads, white household heads, mortality censuses, black household heads, free black landowners, wealthiest quartile, manuscript census returns, free black households, antebellum free blacks, augmented households, women household heads, poorest quartile, matriarchy thesis, free black women, personal estate worth, women heading households, black matriarchy, slave lists, ideal typology, mixed households, free black families, independent black churches, other free blacks, white households Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Carolina, Edgefield Court House, Edgefield County, Francis Pickens, James Henry Hammond, Edgefield Advertiser, Edgefield Village, Edgefield Data Base, Freedmen's Bureau, Preston Brooks, Paris Simkins, Ninety Six, Ben Tillman, Harry Hammond, Beech Island, Lawrence Cain, Louis Wigfall, Matthew Calbraith Butler, Whitfield Brooks, Revolutionary War, Arthur Simkins, George Tillman, William Gregg, Alexander Bettis, Annette Milledge New!
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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). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
white female household heads, black female household heads, white household heads, mortality censuses, black household heads, free black landowners, wealthiest quartile, manuscript census returns, free black households, antebellum free blacks, augmented households, women household heads, poorest quartile, matriarchy thesis, free black women, personal estate worth, women heading households, black matriarchy, slave lists, ideal typology, mixed households, free black families, independent black churches, other free blacks, white households Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Carolina, Edgefield Court House, Edgefield County, Francis Pickens, James Henry Hammond, Edgefield Advertiser, Edgefield Village, Edgefield Data Base, Freedmen's Bureau, Preston Brooks, Paris Simkins, Ninety Six, Ben Tillman, Harry Hammond, Beech Island, Lawrence Cain, Louis Wigfall, Matthew Calbraith Butler, Whitfield Brooks, Revolutionary War, Arthur Simkins, George Tillman, William Gregg, Alexander Bettis, Annette Milledge New!
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