African-Virginian Extended Kin: The Prevalence of West African Family Forms among Slaves in Virginia, 1740-1870
Scholarship on slave families has focused on the nuclear family unit as the primary socializing institution among slaves. Such a paradigm ignores the extended family, which was the primary form of family organization among peoples in western and central Africa. By exploring slave trade data, I argue...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31780 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-041999-153416/ |