Communities Of Kinship: Antebellum Families And The Settlement Of The Cotton Frontier

Billingsley shows how the analytic category of kinship can add new dimensions to our understanding of the history of the American South. Her study of the Keesee family illustrates how the family members' biological, legal, and fictive kinship ties helped to shape the growth of the interior South.

• | Author: Carolyn Billingsley
• | Publisher: University Of Georgia Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 01, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 0820352225
• | ISBN-13: 9780820352220