Moments of despair suicide, divorce, and debt in Civil War era North Carolina
During the Civil War era, black and white North Carolinians were forced to fundamentally reinterpret the morality of suicide, divorce, and debt as these experiences became pressing issues throughout the region and nation. In Moments of Despair, David Silkenat explores these shifting sentiments.Anteb...
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| Format: | eBook |
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Chapel Hill [N.C.] :
University of North Carolina Press
c2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798193306719 |
Table of Contents:
- By his own hand : suicide
- Most horrible of crimes : suicide in the old south
- The self-slaying epidemic : suicide after the Civil War
- The legacy of the war we suppose : suicide in medical and social thought
- To loosen the bands of society : divorce
- The country is also a party : antebellum divorce in black and white
- Connubial Bliss until he entered the army by conscription : civil war and divorce
- The divorce mill runs over time : marital breakdown and reform in the new south
- Enslaved by debt : the culture of credit and debt
- Sacredness of obligations : debt in antebellum North Carolina
- Out of debt before I die : the credit crisis of the Civil War
- What the landlord and the storeman choose to make it : general stores, pawnshops, and boardinghouses in the new south
- Nothing less than a question of slavery or freedom : populism and the crisis of debt in the new south.
