Silkenat, David. <br/><br/>
Moments of despair  suicide, divorce, and debt in Civil War era North Carolina /  [electronic resource] : 
David Silkenat. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Chapel Hill [N.C.] :  University of North Carolina Press,  c2011. 
 - x, 296 p. :  ill., maps. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2011. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Suicide--History--North Carolina--19th century.<br/>Divorce--History--North Carolina--19th century.<br/>Debt--History--North Carolina--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Politics and government--1861-1865.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV6548.U52  / S55 2011eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.975609/034