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In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)

hardcover – September 13, 1985
by Burton, Orville Vernon
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ISBN-13: 9780807816196 ISBN-10: 0807816191
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Binding
hardcover
Published
September 13, 1985
Weight
2.1 lbs
Dimensions
22.90×2.50×15.20 cm

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In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) by Burton, Orville Vernon. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780807816196.

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.