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.
- ISBN13 9780807816196
- Publish Date 30 September 1985
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 May 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 501
- Language English