A History of American Attitudes and Ideas Concerning the African and the Afro-American Family

FAIN: FT-11880-74

Lucie G. Colvin
University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, MD 21201-1603)

To examine white American conceptions of, and attitudes toward the African and Afro-American family, both as a theme in the intellectual history of the U.S. and as a factor influencing the development of Afro-American family patterns. The hypothesis of the principle investigator is the slave owners' conceptions and misconceptions about family patterns evolved essentially as ideological support for the instituion of slavery.