A patriarchal family is; authority held by the eldest male, usually the father. ... At some point, often at puberty but sometimes earlier, sons left their mother's hut to join the men of the lineage segment, but they never severed the mother-son emotional bond" (107.) ... In a normal patriarchal family the father would take control of all the mother's responsibility's as stated above in the family. ... The roles a father would typically play in today's typical patriarchal family the mother took those roles back in the slave era making in a matriarchal family. The mother...

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She was a part of a prestigious, "major family network of Boston's South Shore"(Akers 3) and her father was a Congregational minister in a society that held its clergy in highest regard. ... Critics also accused her of unpatriotic lavishness in her entertaining while after her son Willie's death in 1862, they criticized her of avoidance of her social duties. ... Her father preached a more softened form of Puritanism that reflected the growth of more diverse religious practices of the Great Awakening period of early 1740s. ... (Baker 114) And while Abigail Adams concerned herself ab...

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The Lincoln's tale begins and ends lugubriously as Nicolay, 1999 stated, which his grandfather was named also Abraham was killed by a single shot from an Indian rifle while working peacefully with his three sons. ... Thomas Lincoln Abraham's father got married the very next year to Sarah Bush she was a very smart woman with a great heart, although Abraham loved her very much. ... Success was Abraham's objective, in 1939 he got married to Mary Todd and they had them four sons and bought their first house. ...

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In Maryland, vanity license plates bearing small Confederate flags caused problems for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, while University of Mississippi students had a tradition of waving the Confederate flag at sporting events. ... He proclaimed that the founding fathers were wrong in the assumption that all races were equal. ...

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He was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1808, the son of a slave woman, and in all likelihood, her white master. ... Instead, he presented himself as a virtually motherless child from an anonymous white father and whose very name was given to him by a white master. ...

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