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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820427103321

Autore

Burke Diane Mutti

Titolo

On slavery's border [[electronic resource] ] : Missouri's small slaveholding households, 1815-1865 / / Diane Mutti Burke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-89208-8

9786612892080

0-8203-3736-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (432 p.)

Collana

Early American places

Disciplina

977.8/03

Soggetti

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

Missouri Race relations History 19th century

Missouri Social conditions 19th century

Border States (U.S. Civil War) Social conditions Case studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"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.