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Author:

Burke, Diane Mutti.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Georgia Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xvi, 413 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

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.
Missouri--History--History--19th century.
Missouri--Social conditions--19th century.
Border States (U.S. Civil War)--Social conditions--Case studies.

Other Authors:

Early American Places (Project)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0820336831 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780820336831 (pbk. : alk. paper)
082033636X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780820336367 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)649077370

LCCN:

2010026523

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)