Within the slave cabin: Violence in mississippi slave families

Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 268-285

  Morris, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 85071811751     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203949054-23     Document Type: Chapter

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