The making of a southerner [electronic resource] : William Barclay Napton's private Civil War / Christopher Phillips.

By: Phillips, Christopher, 1959 Nov. 1-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008Description: x, 162 p. : illSubject(s): 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 -- BiographyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 973.7092 | B LOC classification: F466.N34 | P48 2008Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.

"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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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