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BL
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701545
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b523734
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| Main Entry
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Silkenat, David
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| Title & Author
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Moments of despair : : suicide, divorce, debt in Civil War era North Carolina /\ David Silkenat
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| Publication Statement
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Chapel Hill :: University of North Carolina Press,, c2011
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| Page. NO
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x, 296 p. :: ill. ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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0807834602 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780807834602 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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
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Divorce-- North Carolina-- History-- 19th century
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Suicide-- North Carolina-- History-- 19th century
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United States, Politics and government, 1861-1865
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| Dewey Classification
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362.975609/034
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HV6548.U52N87 2011
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