On Slavery's Border: Missouri's Small Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865 (Early American Places)

On Slavery's Border: Missouri's Small Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865 (Early American Places)

by Diane Mutti Burke (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 15 Dec 2010

ISBN 10: 082033636X
ISBN 13: 9780820336367