On slavery's border Missouri's small-slaveholding households, 1815-1865 / Diane Mutti Burke.

Author/creator Burke, Diane Mutti
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAthens : University of Georgia Press,
Descriptionxvi, 413 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
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Subjects
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.

SeriesEarly American places
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [373]-396) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010026523
ISBN9780820336367 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN082033636X (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780820336831 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0820336831 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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