Missouri's Small Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865
by
Diane Mutti Burke
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
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...