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African American history
Ann Hall
Antebellum Boston
Author_Carol Buchalter Stapp
Black Bostonians
black community probate records analysis
Brown's Estate
Brown’s Estate
Business Stock
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Category=NHTB
Clothing Dealers
Cole's Estate
Cole’s Estate
Crispus Attucks
Crisscrossing Pattern
Decorative Items
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Estate Inventories
historical primary sources
Household Goods
Independent Baptist Church
Life Style
Mary's County
Mary’s County
material culture studies
Negative Net Worth
Net Worth
nineteenth century Boston
Personal Estate
Primus Hall
Probate Inventories
probate inventory analysis
Probate Records
Semi-skilled Laborers
Semiskilled Laborer
Smithsonian Institution's National Museum
Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum
social stratification research
Total Estate
Product details
- ISBN 9780815311942
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 1993
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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First published in 1993. The probate records of antebellum black Bostonians offer an ideal opportunity to compare the literature to a primary source, both in terms of content and method. Critical reviews of the scholarship, first, on black social history and, then, on probate inventories as historic sources precede an examination of the probate records themselves and a comparison of the literature to probate records. The study concludes by indicating that the shortcomings of probate records arise from their leaving much mysterious or misunderstood without recourse to other sources while their strengths residei n their intimate and subtle suggestions for understanding a purportedly inarticulate population.
