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.