In My Father's House Are Many Mansions

In My Father's House Are Many Mansions

Author: Orville Vernon Burton

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2000-11-09

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 0807864161

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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.


A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Peter Johnston, Who Came to America from Lockerby, Scotl

A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Peter Johnston, Who Came to America from Lockerby, Scotl

Author: Peter Johnston

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2019-03-08

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9780530735221

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