Moments of despair suicide, divorce, and debt in Civil War era North Carolina /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Silkenat, David.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
Edition:1st ed.
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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.