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On slavery's border : Missouri's small-slaveholding households, 1815-1865 /

On Slavery's Border is a bottom-up examination of how slavery and slaveholding were influenced by both the geography and the scale of the slaveholding enterprise. Missouri's strategic access to important waterways made it a key site at the periphery of the Atlantic world. By the time of st...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burke, Diane Mutti
Autor Corporativo: Early American Places (Project)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2010.
Colección:Early American places.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "They came like an avalanche" : the development of a small-slaveholding promised land
  • Households in the middle ground : small slaveholders' family strategies
  • "I was at home with the Negroes at work" : labor within Missouri's small-slaveholding households
  • "May we as one family live in peace and harmony" : small-slaveholding household relations
  • "Mah pappy belong to a neighbor" : marriage and family among Missouri slaves
  • "We all lived neighbors" : sociability in small-slaveholding neighborhoods
  • The war within : the passing of border slavery.