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

From: The Arkansas Historical Quarterly | Date: December 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier. By Carolyn Earle Billingsley. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 215. Acknowledgments, illustrations, maps, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, credits. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.)

In Communities of Kinship, Carolyn Earle Billingsley argues that "kinship-particularly in the study of the antebellum South-should be considered a discrete category of analysis complementary to and potentially as powerful as race, class, and gender" (p. 1). Billingsley sets out her case in an ...

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