Author : Orville Vernon Burton
Release : 2000-11-09
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 161/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis In My Father's House Are Many Mansions by : Orville Vernon Burton
Download or read book In My Father's House Are Many Mansions written by Orville Vernon Burton. This book was released on 2000-11-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.