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The making of a southerner : William Barclay Napton's private Civil War
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"Drawn from personal journals kept for more than fifty years and from a vast professional and family correspondence, the life story of William Barclay Napton offers an important perspective on the ...
"Drawn from personal journals kept for more than fifty years and from a vast professional and family correspondence, the life story of William Barclay Napton offers an important perspective on the issues and events that turned this northerner into an avowed proslavery ideologue and finally into a full southerner"--Provided by publisher.
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- Creator
- Christopher Phillips
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- x, 162 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0826266622, 9780826218254, 0826218253, 9780826266620
- OCLC
- ocn227919904, ocn593239880
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-149) and index.
- The refugee -- The Virginian -- Making Eden -- Mastering new worlds -- Judging slavery -- The war within -- Napton's private war -- The southerner -- Biographical information on Napton's children
Subjects
- Napton, William Barclay, 1808-1883.
- Napton, William Barclay, 1808-1883 -- Political and social views.
- Judges -- Missouri -- Biography.
- Slaveholders -- Missouri -- Saline County -- Biography.
- Slavery -- Political aspects -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century.
- Saline County (Mo.) -- Biography.
- Missouri -- Politics and government -- To 1865.
- Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography.
- Confederate States of America -- Biography.