2010•The New England QuarterlyRequires access

Lineage as Capital: Genealogy in Antebellum New England

Francesca Morgan

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The lives of two women and three men in antebellum Massachusetts and New Hampshire demonstrate that genealogical practices buttressed class distinctions and that genealogists researched lineages that best fit their definitions of propriety. Documented seventeenth-century lineages constituted social capital. Yet genealogy showed also that class could be made as well as inherited.

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Key concepts: Genealogy, Lineage (genetic), Capital (architecture), Class (philosophy), History, New england, Sociology, Ethnology