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Paperback Moments of Despair: Suicide, Divorce, and Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina Book

ISBN: 1469615320

ISBN13: 9781469615325

Moments of Despair: Suicide, Divorce, and Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina

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During the Civil War era, black and white North Carolinians were forced to fundamentally reinterpret the morality of suicide, divorce, and debt as these experiences became pressing issues throughout the region and nation. In Moments of Despair, David Silkenat explores these shifting sentiments.

Antebellum white North Carolinians stigmatized suicide, divorce, and debt, but the Civil War undermined these entrenched attitudes, forcing a...

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