Family values in the Old South / edited by Craig Thompson Friend and Anya Jabour.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Friend, Craig Thompson.

Jabour, Anya.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Southern States--History.

Families.

Social values--Southern States--History.

Social values.

Social conditions.

History.

Southern States--Social conditions--History.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

257 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2010]

Contents:

Part 1 Defining (and Defying) Southern Family Values 17

1 "Every Thing but a Parents Love": Family Life in Orphan Asylums of the Lower Mississippi Valley / Nancy Zey 19

2 "He come sometimes widout de pass": Rethinking Cross-Plantation Marriages and Enslaved Families in Antebellum South Carolina / Emily West 42

3 Little Eva's Last Breath: Childhood Death and Parental Mourning in "Our Family, White and Black" / Craig Tliompson Friend 62

4 Female Families: Same-Sex Love in the Victorian South / Anya Jabour 86

Part 2 Measuring Families' Value 109

5 Out of Whole Cloth? Sewing and Family in the Old South / Lynn Kennedy 111

6 A Family Firm: The Marital and Business Partnership of Ann and Richard Archer / Nikki Berg Burin 134

7 Making a Home in Public: Domesticity, Authority, and Family in the Old South's Public Houses / Kirsten E. Wood 158

Part 3 Family Values and Social Order 187

8 Family Ties: Indian Countrymen, George Stinson, and Creek Sovereignty / Andrew K. Frank 189

9 White Families and Political Culture in the Old South / Christopher J. Olsen 210

10 A View of a Will: Miscegenation, Inheritance, and Family in Civil War Era Charleston / Kevin Noble Maillard 233.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

9780813034188

0813034183

OCLC:

316826734