On Slavery\'s Border is a bottom-up examination of how slavery and Slaveholding were influenced by both the geography and the scale of the Slaveholding enterprise.
Diane Mutti Burke focuses on the Missouri.
By the time of statehood in 1821, people were moving there in large numbers, especially from the upper South, hoping to replicate the slave society they\'d left behind.
Missouri\'s strategic access to important waterways made it a key site at the periphery of the Atlantic world.
On Slavery\'s Border is a bottom-up examination of how slavery and Slaveholding were influenced by both the geography and the scale of the Slaveholding enterprise