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

Author/Contributor(s):	Mutti Burke, Diane
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	12/01/2010
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.