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The Bottom Rung: African American Family Life on Southern Farms

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Presents an investigation of a population that is becoming extinct in American society: the black farmer. Tracing patterns of marriage and childbearing among blacks, this book pursues questions about how black southern farm families were formed and dissolved, how they educated their children, and how they migrated in search of opportunity.

232 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1998

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