Projects

Legal history

Law and Everyday Life among Black Southerners: Author: Dylan C. Penningroth, Updated Jan 24, 2008; This study focuses on husband-wife relations, the rise of the independent black church, migration, and the interaction between legal categories and popular conceptions such as respectability and…
Legacies of Slavery in Early-twentieth-century Gold Coast Africa: Author: Dylan C. Penningroth, Updated Jan 24, 2008; The histories of Ghana and the U.S. South during the nineteenth century were significantly shaped by debates about the claims that slaves and their descendants made to kinship and to the products of…