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Family Values in the Old South (Paperback, New)
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"Will become a useful addition to our understanding of antebellum
Southern families, especially in demonstrating their multiple
forms, definitions, and functions."--Sally McMillen, Davidson
College This collection of essays on family life in the
nineteenth-century American South reevaluates the concept of family
by looking at mourning practices, farming practices, tavern life,
houses divided by politics, and interracial marriages. Individual
essays examine cross-plantation marriages among slaves, white
orphanages, childhood mortality, miscegenation and inheritance,
domestic activities such as sewing, and same-sex relationships.
Editors Craig Thompson Friend and Anya Jabour have collected work
from a range of diverse and innovative historians. The volume
uncovers more about Southern family life and values than we have
previously known and raises new questions about how Southerners
conceptualized family--from demographic structures, power
relations, and gender roles to the relationship of family to
society. In three sections, these ten essays explore the definition
of family in the nineteenth-century South, examine the economics of
family life, both rural and urban, and ultimately answer the
question "what did family mean in the Old South?"
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