| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4

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Canada and the United States

Lorri Glover. All Our Relations: Blood Ties and Emotional Bonds among the Early South Carolina Gentry. (Gender Relations in the American Experience.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2000. Pp. xvi, 206. $39.95.

Lorri Glover wants historians to think more broadly about the family than the relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children. An analysis of relationships among siblings, cousins, and other kin can shed new light on family life, including gendered family roles, she maintains. Among colonial South Carolina gentry, the focus on spouses, parents, and children has prevented a full understanding of elite culture. Although patriarchal bonds traditionally have been viewed as the quintessence of family ties among the South Carolina colonial elite, blood and emotional bonds within family groups were more complex than this. 1

Rather than being a bastion of male prerogatives, elite families were cooperative and interdependent. Brothers and sisters, cousins, and other extended kin served as mentors and friends, interacting with one another as equal partners much of the time. The nature of the kinship bond depended more on the age difference between family members than on gender. Older sisters advised brothers on careers and spending habits; older brothers advised sisters on marriage and childrearing. Siblings close in age became companions and confidants. . . .

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