Persistent Myths about the Afro-American Family We start with Alexander Hamilton. He was neither a historian nor a sociologist. Surely he would not be classified as an expert on the history of the Afro-American family. But a single sentence of his remains relevant to the theme of this paper. The contempt we have been taught to entertain for the blacks, Hamilton observed nearly two centuries ago, makes us fancy many things that are founded neither in reason nor in experience.'
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Herbert G. Gutman (1975) studied this question.