On Slavery's Border - Missouri's Small Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865

Mutti 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 small slaveholders' child-rearing and fiscal strategies, the economics of slavery, relations between slaves and owners, the challenges faced by slave families, sociability among enslaved and free Missourians within rural neighborhoods, and the disintegration of slavery during the Civil War.

About the author

Diane Mutti Burke is an assistant professor of history at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.

Product details

• Authors: Diane Mutti Burke, Diane Mutti Burke
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2010
• EAN: 9780820336831
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3683-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Early American Places; Early American Places
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Menschenhandel, 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, History - U.S., SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century