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Author

Burke, Diane Mutti.

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

Imprint

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2010.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	977.803 B917o 2010	---	Available

Description	xvi, 413 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Series	Early American places
	Early American places.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-396) 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.
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 -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
	Missouri -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
	Border States (U.S. Civil War) -- Social conditions -- Case studies.
ISBN	9780820336831 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	0820336831 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	9780820336367 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	082033636X (hardcover : alk. paper)