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The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) PDF

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Penningroth001.fm 4/30/03 12:06 PM Page i The Claims of Kinfolk Penningroth001.fm 4/30/03 12:06 PM Page ii The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture waldo e. martin jr. and patricia sullivan, editors The Claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Penningroth001.fm 4/30/03 12:06 PM Page iii of Kinfolk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dylan C. Penningroth The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill and London Penningroth001.fm 4/30/03 12:06 PM Page iv ©2003The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designed by April Leidig-Higgins Set in New Baskerville by Copperline Book Services The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Penningroth, Dylan C. The claims of kinfolk: African American property and community in the nineteenth-century South / Dylan C. Penningroth. p. cm.—(The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn0-8078-2797-5(cloth: alk. paper) isbn0-8078-5476-x(pbk.: alk. paper) 1. African Americans—Southern States— Economic conditions—19th century. 2. African Americans—Southern States—Social conditions —19th century. 3. African Americans—Land tenure—Southern States—History—19th cen- tury. 4. Slaves—Southern States—Economic conditions—19th century. 5. Slaves—Southern States—Family relationships—History—19th century. 6. Property—Southern States—History— 19th century. 7. Southern States—Economic conditions—19th century. 8. Southern States— Social conditions—19th century. 9. Slaves— Emanicpation—Ghana—History—19th century. 10. Property—Ghana—History—19th century. I. Title. II. Series. e185.8 .p39 2003 333.33'5'08996073075—dc21 2003000212 cloth 07 06 05 04 03 5 4 3 2 1 paper 07 06 05 04 03 5 4 3 2 1 Portions of this work appeared, in somewhat dif- ferent form, in Dylan Penningroth, “Slavery, Free- dom, and Social Claims to Property,” Journal of American History84, no. 2(Sept.1997):405–35 (reprinted by permission). Penningroth001.fm 4/30/03 12:06 PM Page v To my family, who showed me what it is all about, and the memory of my uncle Craig Penningroth001.fm 4/30/03 12:06 PM Page vi Penningroth001.fm 4/30/03 12:06 PM Page vii Con†ents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Introduction: Kinship and the Slaves’ Economy from Slavery to Freedom 1 chapter 1 One of the Family? Abolition and Social Claims to Property in the Gold Coast, West Africa, 1868–1930 13 chapter 2 Slavery’s Other Economy 45 chapter 3 Family and Property in Southern Slavery 79 chapter 4 In and Out of Court 111 chapter 5 Remaking Property 131 chapter 6 Remaking Kinship and Community 163 Conclusion 187 Notes 193 Bibliography 271 Acknowledgments 293 Index 297 Penningroth001.fm 4/30/03 12:06 PM Page viii Penningroth001.fm 4/30/03 12:06 PM Page ix Illus†rations, Maps, and Figure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . illustrations Union general Judson Kilpatrick’s operations in Georgia 3 Union general Judson Kilpatrick’s men returning to camp 3 Two views of Cape Coast Castle, ca. 1901 18 “Carriers going along beach (between Saltpond & Accra)” 19 “Grinding Corn” 21 “Commerical Strasse, Cape Coast Castle, Westafrika” 26 “Colonial Hospital, Cape Coast (Residence of Sir Garnet Wolseley when administrator of the Gold Coast in 1874)” 27 “District Commissioner’s residence, Akusi, Volta River” 28 The Supreme Court building in Cape Coast 29 Gold Coast Legislative Council, 1919 38 Pharsalia Plantation, 1847 49 “Negro Lot of Pharsalia Plantation (detail),” 1847 50 The “quarter,” ca. 1865 92 “Plan of Druid Hill Garden” 93 Provost marshal’s office, Aquia Creek, Va., February, 1863 113 Handwritten report on a Memphis police shooting by a Freedmen’s Bureau officer 147 Sketches of a Georgia plantation before and after emancipation 149

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In Claims of Kinfolk, Dylan Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on African American family and community life from the heyday of plantation slavery to the "freedom generation" of the 1870s. By focusing on relationships among black
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