On Slavery's Border : Missouri's Small Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865 /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Burke, Diane Mutti
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Whites > Missouri > Social conditions > 19th century.
African Americans > Missouri > Social conditions > 19th century.
Slaves > Missouri > Social conditions > 19th century.
Farm life > Missouri > History > 19th century.
Households > Missouri > History > 19th century.
Slaveholders > Missouri > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Missouri > History > 19th century.
Border States (U.S. Civil War) > Social conditions > Case studies.
Missouri > Social conditions > 19th century.
Missouri > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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