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Networks and Contexts: Variation in the Structure of Social Ties
# Barbara Entwisle, Ronald R. Rindfuss, Katherine Faust and Toshiko Kaneda
# The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 112, No. 5 (Mar., 2007), pp. 1495-1533
posted by Lloyd at 11:28 AM

Reading Billingsley's discussion (pp 12-13) of kinship as social construction bound by ties of "obligation, constancy, and inalienability, and some level of love or affection," and "enduring, diffuse solidarity," I see many parallels with the Moral Foundations Questionnaire," of Graham and Haidt, which rates people on five dimensions of harm, fairness, loyalty, authority, and purity.
posted by Lloyd at 5:53 AM

Blackburn, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery.

(270-71) Discusses the debate over direct taxation in Congress, 1797-1798

(285-86) Discusses Indiana explicitly, (1803-1808), in the context of indentures used to mask slavery by migrants arriving in the territory. Planters thought there was no need to revoke slavery ban in N.W., given s.w. expansion possibilities. (Based on his reading of Henry Adams' history and Berwanger's Frontier Against Slavery. This is all framed in terms of Haiti and Napoleonic deals over Louisiana.
posted by Lloyd at 8:32 PM

From Kathryn:

Hey there, Doc:

So, here's a possibly unfortunate consequence of deciding to explore
productivity software--annoying one's colleagues by actually following
through with promises....

Erskine Clarke, Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic (Yale 2005).

Lest you think I'm some kind of uber up-to-date reader of the
literature, please note that I found this book as a result of an
Amazon search last summer, when I was trying to decide what to assign
on slavery for last fall's course, Nation Divided.

Another I mentioned that might be of interest to you:

John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger, In Search of the Promised
Land: A Slave Family in the Old South (Oxford 2006).

This one I think the publisher sent to me, or maybe I ordered as a
result of a mail solicitation. Whatever.

Ciao for now,

K
posted by Lloyd at 11:36 AM

From Rowland's history of Hinds County:

"The history of the county during the period preced-
ing the Civil War is one of constant growth and expansion
along all lines. While its people, as representatives of the
county, took no part in the War of 1812 for American In-
dependence, many of the sturdy pioneer soldiers who served
under Generals Andrew Jackson and Ferdinand L. Claiborne,
and Colonel Thomas Hinds, had moved into the new terri-
tory, purchased from the Indians, and their sons, inherit-
ing the cavalier's courage and chivalrous spirit, were keen
and eager to respond when in 1846 a call came for
volunteers to hasten to the Rio Grande to strength-
en General Zachary Taylor's army during the War
with Mexico. Companies E and G were immediate-
ly organized in Hinds County. From her large brown
loam plantations, from her small hillside farms,
from her white, many-columned houses, and



— 19 —

from her little houses where the lilac and syringa bloomed
by the low window-sill, her young sons, forgetting caste, rank
and profession, answered the call of country, just as their
fathers had done when the British attempted to invade the
South in 1814-15, during the War of 1812."
posted by Lloyd at 11:56 AM

SHEAR NOTES:

In Charleston, (says Rita Reynolds, Wagner College, "Wealthy Free Black and Brown Women in Antebellum Charleston, S.C.), the majority (75%+) of manumissions were of black women with white children.

[Dale Edwina Smith, Slaves of LIberty, Freedom in Amite County, Mississippi, deals with manumissions, too]



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Jones, _Fathers of Conscience: Mixed race inheritance
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posted by Lloyd at 10:59 AM