On slavery's border : Missouri's small slaveholding households, 1815-1865 / / Diane Mutti Burke
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| Autore: |
Burke Diane Mutti
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| Titolo: |
On slavery's border : Missouri's small slaveholding households, 1815-1865 / / Diane Mutti Burke
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| Pubblicazione: | Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (432 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 977.8/03 |
| Soggetto topico: | Slavery - Missouri - History - 19th century |
| Slaveholders - Missouri - History - 19th century | |
| Households - Missouri - History - 19th century | |
| Farm life - Missouri - History - 19th century | |
| Slaves - Missouri - Social conditions - 19th century | |
| African Americans - Missouri - Social conditions - 19th century | |
| Whites - Missouri - Social conditions - 19th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Missouri Race relations History 19th century |
| Missouri Social conditions 19th century | |
| Border States (U.S. Civil War) Social conditions Case studies | |
| 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Burke focuses on the Missouri counties located along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers to investigate small-scale slavery at the level of the household and neighborhood. She examines such topics as the relations between slaves and owners, the challenges faced by slave families, and the disintegration of slavery during the Civil War. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | On slavery's border |
| ISBN: | 1-282-89208-8 |
| 9786612892080 | |
| 0-8203-3736-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820427103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Early American places.