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

"Mutti Burke paints an intimate portrait of slaveholding in a state where slaveholders of small means predominated. Showing what this meant for how slaves, slaveholders, and nonslaveholders related to each other, socialized, built communities and constituted family and kin networks, this book expands and fundamentally alters the historiographical landscape." -- Book cover.

Author(s): Diane Mutti Burke
Publisher: Early American Places
Published: 2010
Pages: 413
Categories: History