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Agriculture and slavery in Missouri's Little Dixie
"Although Missouri has strong cultural ties to the Upper South and major economic links to the Deep South, most historians have focused their agricultural studies on states other than Missouri. In Agriculture and Slavery in Missouri's Little Dixie, Douglas Hurt provides the first systemati...
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
[1992]
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Table of Contents:
- The Boon's Lick country
- Land fever
- Canaan
- The tobacco planters
- The hemp industry
- Commercial livestock raising
- Agricultural improvements
- Rural life
- Farmers and slaves
- Slave management and control
- The political protection of slavery.