Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier

Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier

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Author/Contributor(s): Billingsley, Carolyn Earle
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Date: 08/31/2004
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
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.