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Moments of despair : suicide, divorce, & debt in Civil War era North Carolina /

In this comprehensive volume of the collected writings of James Monroe Whitfield (1822-71), Robert S. Levine and Ivy G. Wilson restore this African American poet, abolitionist, and intellectual to his rightful place in the arts and politics of the nineteenth-century United States. For this volume, L...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Silkenat, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • By his own hand : suicide
  • Most horrible of crimes : suicide in the old south
  • The self-slaying epidemic : suicide after the Civil War
  • The legacy of the war we suppose : suicide in medical and social thought
  • To loosen the bands of society : divorce
  • The country is also a party : antebellum divorce in black and white
  • Connubial Bliss until he entered the army by conscription : civil war and divorce
  • The divorce mill runs over time : marital breakdown and reform in the new south
  • Enslaved by debt : the culture of credit and debt
  • Sacredness of obligations : debt in antebellum North Carolina
  • Out of debt before I die : the credit crisis of the Civil War
  • What the landlord and the storeman choose to make it : general stores, pawnshops, and boardinghouses in the new south
  • Nothing less than a question of slavery or freedom : populism and the crisis of debt in the new south.