| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Book Review

All Our Relations: Blood Ties and Emotional Bonds among the Early South Carolina Gentry. By Lorri Glover. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xviii, 206 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-6474-7.)

All Our Relations makes important contributions to southern history, the history of the family, and gender studies. In this brief but compelling work, Lorri Glover persuasively argues that scholars of the family and of gender roles need to take a closer look at what she calls the "hidden family" of siblings and kin in eighteenth-century society. 1

Taking as her focus the interconnected elite families of colonial and revolutionary South Carolina, Glover contends that, while these families constructed some relationships—such as those between husbands and wives, between parents and children, and between masters and slaves—in a hierarchical, authoritarian way, an "ethos of cooperation and mutuality" that existed between siblings and other kin offered a counterbalance to domestic patriarchy. Glover thus paints a picture of early American families that is more complete, and more complex, than we have had heretofore. . . .

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