On Slavery's Border: Missouri's Small Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865 - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Diane Mutti BurkeSeries:Early American Places #17Publish date:2010-12-01Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820336831ISBN-10:820336831UPC:9780820336831Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Slavery, Cultural & Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:19th Century, AmericanSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCAWZJ3919
On Slavery's Border: Missouri's Small Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865
On Slavery's Border is a bottom-up examination of how slavery and slaveholding were influenced by both the geography and the scale of the slaveholding enterprise. Missouri's strategic access to important waterways made it a key site at the periphery of the Atlantic world. By the time of statehood in 1821, people were moving there in large numbers, especially from the upper South, hoping to...
Series: Early American Places #17
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820336831ISBN-10:820336831UPC:9780820336831Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Slavery, Cultural & Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:19th Century, AmericanSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCAWZJ3919
Diane Mutti Burke is an assistant professor of history at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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