| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South. By Dylan C. Penningroth. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. x, 310 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2797-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5476-X.)

In the past twenty years, Philip D. Morgan, Larry Hudson, and other scholars have documented the "slaves' economy," showing how slaves worked on their own time to earn cash, to produce and sell commodities, and to accumulate property. Dylan C. Penningroth's imaginative study extends this scholarship in a number of ways. He begins by examining the questions raised about property claims and kinship following the abolition of slavery in the Gold Coast by the British in 1874. He looks not for the "origins" of African American practices, but for new questions to ask about the relationships between property and kinship in a time of legal and social change.

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