Claiming Kin And Property

Author : Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466871822
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Claiming Kin written by Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A touching story of a woman's search for her family roots in the wake of the sudden death of her father. Claiming Kin is a powerful and compelling story about a woman's quest to search out her roots upon the death of the father she barely knew. A former journalist hungry for the truth, her search into the past leads her from her hometown in Nashville, Tennessee, back to the birthplace of the Scruggs in nearby Williamson County. There she traces the family back to 1847 and the Scruggs Farm where her ancestors were once slaves. Her journey soon becomes spiritual and emotional, forcing her not only to examine her own beliefs in the importance of family, but also her religious beliefs as she turns toward honoring her ancestors. This is a tale that will capture the heart and mind.

Author : Dylan C. Penningroth
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807862134
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Claims of Kinfolk written by Dylan C. Penningroth and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2004-07-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The 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 blacks, as well as on the more familiar struggles between the races, Penningroth exposes a dynamic process of community and family definition. He also includes a comparative analysis of slavery and slave property ownership along the Gold Coast in West Africa, revealing significant differences between the African and American contexts. Property ownership was widespread among slaves across the antebellum South, as slaves seized the small opportunities for ownership permitted by their masters. While there was no legal framework to protect or even recognize slaves' property rights, an informal system of acknowledgment recognized by both blacks and whites enabled slaves to mark the boundaries of possession. In turn, property ownership--and the negotiations it entailed--influenced and shaped kinship and community ties. Enriching common notions of slave life, Penningroth reveals how property ownership engendered conflict as well as solidarity within black families and communities. Moreover, he demonstrates that property had less to do with individual legal rights than with constantly negotiated, extralegal social ties.

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Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Index for Persons in America Claiming Property Abroad written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dylan C. Penningroth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
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Download or read book Claiming Kin and Property written by Dylan C. Penningroth and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karen Cook Bell
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611178312
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Claiming Freedom written by Karen Cook Bell and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the political and social experiences of African Americans in transition from enslaved to citizen Claiming Freedom is a noteworthy and dynamic analysis of the transition African Americans experienced as they emerged from Civil War slavery, struggled through emancipation, and then forged on to become landowners during the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction period in the Georgia lowcountry. Karen Cook Bell's work is a bold study of the political and social strife of these individuals as they strived for and claimed freedom during the nineteenth century. Bell begins by examining the meaning of freedom through the delineation of acts of self-emancipation prior to the Civil War. Consistent with the autonomy that they experienced as slaves, the emancipated African Americans from the rice region understood citizenship and rights in economic terms and sought them not simply as individuals for the sake of individualism, but as a community for the sake of a shared destiny. Bell also examines the role of women and gender issues, topics she believes are understudied but essential to understanding all facets of the emancipation experience. It is well established that women were intricately involved in rice production, a culture steeped in African traditions, but the influence that culture had on their autonomy within the community has yet to be determined. A former archivist at the National Archives and Records Administration, Bell has wielded her expertise in correlating federal, state, and local records to expand the story of the all-black town of 1898 Burroughs, Georgia, into one that holds true for all the American South. By humanizing the African American experience, Bell demonstrates how men and women leveraged their community networks with resources that enabled them to purchase land and establish a social, political, and economic foundation in the rural and urban post-war era.

Author : Columbus Smith
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781527804043
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Index for Persons in America Claiming Properties Abroad, Either as Next of Kin, Heirs at Law, Legatees Or Otherwise (Classic Reprint) written by Columbus Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Index for Persons in America Claiming Properties Abroad, Either as Next of Kin, Heirs at Law, Legatees or Otherwise Mr. Smith intends for the present to remain in America, in order to prepare cases to forward to Mr. Herrick from time to time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Total Pages : 22 pages
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Download or read book Index for Persons in America Claiming Properties Abroad written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : International Claim Agency (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
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Download or read book Index to Advertisements for Next of Kin, Heirs at Law, Legatees, Etc., Etc written by International Claim Agency (Pittsburgh, Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dylan C. Penningroth
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807854761
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Claims of Kinfolk written by Dylan C. Penningroth and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Elazar Barkan
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892366737
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Claiming the Stones, Naming the Bones written by Elazar Barkan and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2003-01-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These fourteen essays address controversies over a variety of cultural properties, exploring them from perspectives of law, archeology, physical anthropology, ethnobiology, ethnomusicology, history, and cultural and literary study. The book divides cultural property into three types: Tangible, unique property like the Parthenon marbles; intangible property such as folktales, music, and folk remedies; and communal "representations," which have lead groups to censor both outsiders and insiders as cultural traitors.