UID:
almafu_9959229933202883
Umfang:
1 online resource (432 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-89208-8
,
9786612892080
,
0-8203-3736-6
Serie:
Early American places
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
,
"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.
,
English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8203-3683-1
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8203-3636-X
Sprache:
Englisch
