Moments of despair : suicide, divorce, and debt in Civil War era North Carolina / / David Silkenat.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Silkenat, David.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: x, 296 p. :; ill., maps.

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.