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To quote such examples are those that described arguments between former masters and freedmen over the rights to the labor power of family members or between husbands and wives in broken marriages. They however, did not evidently support his argument that kinship was redefined in the process (James, History Services).
Sometimes, his analyses appeared to conflate "family" and "household" in a more incomprehensible manner rather than illumination. This might be due the African case, where slaves were usually acknowledged part of the slave-holders' kin group, and led him lost. Overall, the Claims of Kinfolk is a unique piece of study that will have an important impact and influence on future scholarship (J. William, Journal of American History).
Conclusion
The book "The Claims of Kinfolk" is of maximum value in terms of professional interest to economic historians of the nineteenth-century United States. However, it is an attention grabbing, meditative and systematic book that enhances...
Other than that looking from the perspective of interpretive structure, issues attended, and proof, it is a work improbable to come up on a reading list for graduate study in either African-American nor southern economic history (James, History Services).
Finally, the book offers an enormous set of fascinating instances about slave and ex-slave life from the nineteenth-century United States and the Gold Coast of Africa. At the same time there is little given in the way of systematic proof that could enlighten quantitative analysis (James, History Services).
Works Cited
J. William Harris. Review of the Claims of Kinfolk. University of New Hampshire. The Journal of American History. www.historycooperative.org
James R. Irwin. Review of Dylan C. Penningroth the Claims of Kinfolk: African
American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South. Economic History Services. www. the.net/bookreviews
Book report
Works Cited
J. William Harris. Review of the Claims of Kinfolk. University of New Hampshire. The Journal of American History. www.historycooperative.org
James R. Irwin. Review of Dylan C. Penningroth the Claims of Kinfolk: African
American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South. Economic History Services. www. the.net/bookreviews
Book report
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