Siblings: Brothers and Sisters in American History

While the author does not ignore the lives of African Americans and Native Americans, her study focuses primarily on the white middle class, the group that generally left behind the most sources. According to the author, "the larger paradigm for family and society imported by early Euro-America...

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Published in:Journal of the early Republic 2016, Vol.36 (1), p.169-172
Main Author: Conger, Vivian Bruce
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
American history
American Indians
Egalitarianism
Emotions
European cultural groups
Families & family life
Gender differences
Parent-child relations
Patriarchy
Reviews
Siblings
Social classes
Women
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Summary:While the author does not ignore the lives of African Americans and Native Americans, her study focuses primarily on the white middle class, the group that generally left behind the most sources. According to the author, "the larger paradigm for family and society imported by early Euro-Americans was hierarchical, and thus the horizontal sibling relationship did not fit easily, while the more clearly unequal husband-wife and parent-child relations did" (20). According to Hemphill, slave sibling relationships sustained "the family love that helped men and women live with the constraints of the system, and sometimes to break out of it" (196).
ISSN:0275-1275
1553-0620
DOI:10.1353/jer.2016.0007