Family Money: Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century

by Jeffory Clymer

Book Overview

Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased owners; the household traumas of mixed-race slaves; post-Emancipation calls for reparations; and the economic fallout from anti-miscegenation marriage laws. Authors ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank Webb, and Harriet Beecher Stowe to Charles Chesnutt and Lydia Maria Child recognized that intimate interracial relationships took...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190223871
• ISBN13: 9780190223878
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"