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Author Silkenat, David.

Title Moments of despair [electronic resource] : suicide, divorce, and debt in Civil War era North Carolina / David Silkenat.

Imprint Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description x, 296 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents By his own hand : suicide -- Most horrible of crimes : suicide in the old south -- The self-slaying epidemic : suicide after the Civil War -- The legacy of the war we suppose : suicide in medical and social thought -- To loosen the bands of society : divorce -- The country is also a party : antebellum divorce in black and white -- Connubial Bliss until he entered the army by conscription : civil war and divorce -- The divorce mill runs over time : marital breakdown and reform in the new south -- Enslaved by debt : the culture of credit and debt -- Sacredness of obligations : debt in antebellum North Carolina -- Out of debt before I die : the credit crisis of the Civil War -- What the landlord and the storeman choose to make it : general stores, pawnshops, and boardinghouses in the new south -- Nothing less than a question of slavery or freedom : populism and the crisis of debt in the new south.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Suicide -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century.
Divorce -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century.
Debt -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780807834602 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807877951 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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