Author: Louis Houck
Publisher:
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The Spanish Regime in Missouri
Author: Louis Houck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The Spanish Regime in Missouri
Author: Louis Houck
Publisher:
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The Spanish Regime in Missouri
Author: Louis Houck
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Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 964
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Publisher:
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Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 964
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Slavery and Crime in Missouri, 1773-1865
Author: Harriet C. Frazier
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786409778
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Slavery and its lasting effects have long been an issue in America, with the scars inflicted running deep. This study examines crimes such as stealing, burglary, arson, rape and murder committed against and by slaves, with most of the author's information coming from handwritten court records and newspapers. These documents show the death penalty rarely applied when a slave killed another slave, but that it always applied when a slave killed a white person. Despite Missouri's grim criminal justice system, the state's best lawyers were called upon to represent slaves in court on serious criminal charges, and federal law applied to all persons, granting slaves in Missouri protection that few other slave states had. By 1860, Missouri's population was only 10 percent slave, the smallest percentage of any slave state in America.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786409778
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Slavery and its lasting effects have long been an issue in America, with the scars inflicted running deep. This study examines crimes such as stealing, burglary, arson, rape and murder committed against and by slaves, with most of the author's information coming from handwritten court records and newspapers. These documents show the death penalty rarely applied when a slave killed another slave, but that it always applied when a slave killed a white person. Despite Missouri's grim criminal justice system, the state's best lawyers were called upon to represent slaves in court on serious criminal charges, and federal law applied to all persons, granting slaves in Missouri protection that few other slave states had. By 1860, Missouri's population was only 10 percent slave, the smallest percentage of any slave state in America.
The First Chouteaus
Author: William E. Foley
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252068973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
For more than half a century, Auguste and Pierre Chouteau dominated trade and enterprise in the Mississippi Valley. In their various roles as merchants, Indian traders, bankers, land speculators, governmental advisors, public officials, and community leaders, the Chouteau brothers exerted a tremendous influence on westward expansion. This is the first full account of their lives and illustrious careers.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252068973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
For more than half a century, Auguste and Pierre Chouteau dominated trade and enterprise in the Mississippi Valley. In their various roles as merchants, Indian traders, bankers, land speculators, governmental advisors, public officials, and community leaders, the Chouteau brothers exerted a tremendous influence on westward expansion. This is the first full account of their lives and illustrious careers.
Runaway and Freed Missouri Slaves and Those Who Helped Them, 1763-1865
Author: Harriet C. Frazier
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786418299
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
From the beginning of French rule of Missouri in 1720 through this state's abolition of slavery in 1865, liberty was always the goal of the vast majority of its enslaved people. The presence in eastern Kansas of a host of abolitionists from New England made slaveholding risky business. Many religiously devout persons were imprisoned in Missouri for "slave stealing." Based largely on old newspapers, prison records, pardon papers, and other archival materials, this book is an account of the legal and physical obstacles that slaves faced in their quest for freedom and of the consequences suffered by persons who tried to help them. Attitudes of both slave holders and abolitionists are examined, as is the institution's protection in both the Articles of Confederation and the U.S. Constitution. The book discusses the experiences of particular individuals and examines the Underground Railroad on Missouri's borders. Appendices provide details from two Spanish colonial census reports, a list of abolitionist prison inmates with details about their time served, and the percentages of African Americans still in bondage in 16 jurisdictions from 1820 to 1860.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786418299
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
From the beginning of French rule of Missouri in 1720 through this state's abolition of slavery in 1865, liberty was always the goal of the vast majority of its enslaved people. The presence in eastern Kansas of a host of abolitionists from New England made slaveholding risky business. Many religiously devout persons were imprisoned in Missouri for "slave stealing." Based largely on old newspapers, prison records, pardon papers, and other archival materials, this book is an account of the legal and physical obstacles that slaves faced in their quest for freedom and of the consequences suffered by persons who tried to help them. Attitudes of both slave holders and abolitionists are examined, as is the institution's protection in both the Articles of Confederation and the U.S. Constitution. The book discusses the experiences of particular individuals and examines the Underground Railroad on Missouri's borders. Appendices provide details from two Spanish colonial census reports, a list of abolitionist prison inmates with details about their time served, and the percentages of African Americans still in bondage in 16 jurisdictions from 1820 to 1860.
Centennial History of Missouri
Author: Walter Barlow Stevens
Publisher:
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Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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The Spanish Borderlands Frontier, 1513-1821
Author: John Francis Bannon
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826303097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The classic history of the Spanish frontier from Florida to California.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826303097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The classic history of the Spanish frontier from Florida to California.
Missouri Irish
Author: Michael C. O'Laughlin
Publisher: Irish Roots Cafe
ISBN: 9780940134263
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The first history ever written on the Irish in Kansas City, St. Louis, The Irish Wilderness and Missouri at large. Includes the early settlers and settlements, family history, parades, organizations, politics, from the earliest times to modern day. This is the only enlarged and updated edition ever in print. Sources for futher study included. Indexed. Authored by the most published author in the field. Free "Missouri Irish" companion podcast series to this book, hosted by the author, at www.Irishroots.com
Publisher: Irish Roots Cafe
ISBN: 9780940134263
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The first history ever written on the Irish in Kansas City, St. Louis, The Irish Wilderness and Missouri at large. Includes the early settlers and settlements, family history, parades, organizations, politics, from the earliest times to modern day. This is the only enlarged and updated edition ever in print. Sources for futher study included. Indexed. Authored by the most published author in the field. Free "Missouri Irish" companion podcast series to this book, hosted by the author, at www.Irishroots.com
Centennial History of Missouri (the Center State) One Hundred Years in the Union, 1820-1921
Author: Walter Barlow Stevens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description