TY - BOOK AU - Silkenat,David ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Moments of despair: suicide, divorce, and debt in Civil War era North Carolina AV - HV6548.U52 S55 2011eb U1 - 362.975609/034 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Chapel Hill [N.C.] PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - Suicide KW - North Carolina KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Divorce KW - Debt KW - United States KW - Politics and government KW - 1861-1865 KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/gulbargauniversity/Doc?id=10460916 ER -