An edition of Moments of despair
(2011)
Moments of despair
suicide, divorce, & debt in Civil War era North Carolina
by David Silkenat
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Suicide, Divorce, Debt, Politics and government, HistoryPlaces
United States, North CarolinaTimes
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Moments of despair: suicide, divorce, & debt in Civil War era North Carolina
2011, University of North Carolina Press
in English
0807834602 9780807834602
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-289) and index.
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