In My Father's House Are Many Mansions
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A01=Orville Vernon Burton
Author_Orville Vernon Burton
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Edgefield County
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family structure
Reconstruction
rural community
southern
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- ISBN 9780807841839
- Weight: 1065g
- Dimensions: 150 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 27 Mar 1987
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Orville Vernon Burton is professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His books include ""A Gentleman and an Officer"": A Military and Social History of James B. Griffin's Civil War.
