![]() | On Slavery''s Border: Missouri''s Small Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865 Subjects: Slavery -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century; Slaveholders -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century; Households -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century; Farm life -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century; Slaves -- Missouri -- Social conditions -- 19th centu; 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 is an assistant professor of history at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. |
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