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Moments of despair :

0807834602 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780807834602 (cloth : alk. paper)

b523734

Moments of despair :

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suicide, divorce, & debt in Civil War era North Carolina /

David Silkenat

Chapel Hill :

University of North Carolina Press,

c2011

x, 296 p. :

ill. ;

25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

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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Debt-- North Carolina-- History-- 19th century

Divorce-- North Carolina-- History-- 19th century

Suicide-- North Carolina-- History-- 19th century

United States, Politics and government, 1861-1865

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Silkenat, David

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