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

Object Details

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

Data Source

Smithsonian Libraries

Date

2010

C2010

19th century

Author

Burke, Diane Mutti

Early American Places (Project)

Type

Books

Case studies

Physical description

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

Place

Missouri

Border States (U.S. Civil War)

Topic

Slavery--History

Slaveholders--History

Households--History

Farm life--History

Slaves--Social conditions

African Americans--Social conditions

White people--Social conditions

Race relations

History

Social conditions

Record ID

siris_sil_949525

Usage

CC0