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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Burke, Diane Mutti
Corporate Author: Early American Places (Project)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2010.
Series:Early American places.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Slavery > Missouri > History > 19th century.
Slaveholders > Missouri > History > 19th century.
Households > Missouri > History > 19th century.
Farm life > Missouri > History > 19th century.
Enslaved persons > Missouri > Social conditions > 19th century.
African Americans > Missouri > Social conditions > 19th century.
White people > Missouri > Social conditions > 19th century.
Propriétaires d'esclaves > Missouri > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Ménages (Statistique) > Missouri > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Vie à la ferme > Missouri > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Esclaves > Missouri > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Noirs américains > Missouri > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Personnes blanches > Missouri > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > State & Local.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
African Americans > Social conditions
Farm life
Households
Race relations
Slaveholders
Slavery
Enslaved persons > Social conditions
Social conditions
White people > Social condition
Missouri > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Missouri > Social conditions > 19th century.
Border States (U.S. Civil War) > Social conditions > Case studies.
Missouri > Relations raciales > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Missouri > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
États limitrophes (Guerre de Sécession, États-Unis) > Conditions sociales > Études de cas.
Missouri
United States > Border States (U.S. Civil War)
Case studies
History
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Table of Contents:
  • "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.

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