burton's book mentions both Sally McMillin, Motherhood in the Old South, and a piece by John E. Crowley, "The Importance of Kinship: Testamentary Evidence from South Carolina" J. Interdisc. Hist. 16 (Spring 1986).
posted by Lloyd at 7:48 AM

This model, and the preceding explanation, is adapted from Joshua M. Epstein, "Modeling civil violence: An agent-based computational approach", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 99, Suppl. 3, May 14, 2002, and is available at http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/99/suppl_3/7243
posted by Lloyd at 1:45 PM