On slavery's border : Missouri's small-slaveholding households, 1815-1865

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Label

On slavery's border : Missouri's small-slaveholding households, 1815-1865

Title remainder

Missouri's small-slaveholding households, 1815-1865

Statement of responsibility

Diane Mutti Burke

Creator

• Burke, Diane Mutti

Contributor

• Early American Places (Project)

Subject

• 1800-1899
• African Americans -- Missouri -- Social conditions -- 19th century
• African Americans -- Social conditions
• Border States (U.S. Civil War) -- Social conditions -- Case studies
• Case studies
• Electronic book
• Electronic books
• Electronic books
• Farm life
• Farm life -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century
• HISTORY -- State & Local
• HISTORY -- State & Local | General
• HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
• History
• Households
• Households -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century
• Missouri
• Missouri -- Race relations | History -- 19th century
• Missouri -- Social conditions -- 19th century
• Race relations
• Slaveholders
• Slaveholders -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century
• Slavery
• Slavery -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century
• Slaves -- Missouri -- Social conditions -- 19th century
• Slaves -- Social conditions
• Social conditions
• United States -- Border States (U.S. Civil War)
• Whites -- Missouri -- Social conditions -- 19th century
• Whites -- Social conditions

Genre

• Electronic books
• History
• Case studies
• Electronic book

Language

eng

Summary

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 replicate the slave society they'd left behind.; Diane 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. Mutti Burke argues that economic and social factors gave Missouri slavery an especially intimate quality. Owners directly oversaw their slaves and lived in close proximity with them, sometimes in the same building. White Missourians believed this made for a milder version of bondage. Some slaves, who expressed fear of being sold further south, seemed to agree.; Mutti Burke reveals, however, that while small slaveholding created some advantages for slaves, it also made them more vulnerable to abuse and interference in their personal lives. In a region with easy access to the free states, the perception that slavery was threatened spawned white anxiety, which frequently led to violent reassertions of supremacy

Member of

• Early American places
• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

977.8/03

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

E445.M67

LC item number

B87 2010eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Early American places