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BOOKS
In Before the Movement, acclaimed historian Dylan C. Penningroth brilliantly revises the conventional story of Black life in an unequal society. He draws on astonishing new research to demonstrate how Black people used law in their everyday lives, long before the civil rights movement. It is an account of Black legal lives that recovers a rich, broader vision of Black life itself—a vision allied with, yet distinct from, “the freedom struggle."
In The Claims of Kinfolk, Dylan C. Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on African American family and community life from the heyday of plantation slavery to the "freedom generation" of the 1870s.
Winner of the 2004 Civil War & Reconstruction Award, Organization of American Historians
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