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On Slavery's Border
Door Diane Mutti Burke
| Categorie | Geschiedenis Noord-Amerika |
|---|---|
| Boeknummer | #390264 |
| Titel | On Slavery's Border: Missouri's Small-slaveholding Households, 1815-1865 |
| Auteur | Burke, Diane Mutti |
| Boektype | Paperback |
| Uitgeverij | Athens/London : The University of Georgia Press |
| Jaar van uitgave | 2010 |
| ISBN10 | 0820336831 |
| ISBN13 | 9780820336831 |
| Taal | Engels |
| Beschrijving | Paperback, some illustrations in b/w, 8vo. |
| Samenvatting | "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. 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. 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. |
| Pagina's | 413 |
| Conditie | Goed — Name and year on title page. |
| Prijs | € 17,50 |
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