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In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina (Revised edition)

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In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina - Burton, Orville Vernon, Professor
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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 My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina 1987, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

ISBN-13: 9780807841839

Revised edition

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In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina 1985, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

ISBN-13: 9780807816196

Hardcover