Slavery, Southern Culture, And Education In Little Dixie, Missouri, 1820-1860

94544_Stone_12_22.qxp 12/22/2005 10:10 AM Page i STUDIES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE Edited by Graham Hodges Colgate University A ROUTLEDGE SERIES 94544_Stone_12_22.qxp 12/22/2005 10:10 AM Page ii STUDIES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE GRAHAM HODGES, General Editor SOMETHING BETTER FOR OUR CHILDREN Black Organizing in Chicago Public Schools, 1963–1971 Dionne Danns TEACH THE NATION Public School, Racial Uplift, and Women’s Writing in the 1890s Anne-Elizabeth Murdy THE ART OF THE BLACK ESSAY From Meditation to Transcendence Cheryl B. Butler EMERGING AFRIKAN SURVIVALS An Afrocentric Critical Theory Kamau Kemayó SLAVERY IN THE CHEROKEE NATION The Keetoowah Society and the Defining of a People 1855–1867 Patrick N. Minges TROUBLING BEGINNINGS Trans(per)forming African American History and Identity Maurice E. Stevens THE SOCIAL TEACHINGS OF THE PROGRESSIVE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION, INC., SINCE 1961 A Critical Analysis of the Least, the Lost, and the Left-out Albert A. Avant, Jr. GIVING A VOICE TO THE VOICELESS Four Pioneering Black Women Journalists Jinx Coleman Broussard CONSTRUCTING BELONGING Class, Race, and Harlem’s Professional Workers Sabiyha Prince CONTESTING THE TERRAIN OF THE IVORY TOWER Spiritual Leadership of AfricanAmerican Women in the Academy Rochelle Garner POST-SOUL BLACK CINEMA Discontinuities, Innovations, and Breakpoints, 1970–1995 William R. Grant, IV THE MYSTERIOUS VOODOO QUEEN, MARIE LAVEAUX A Study of Powerful Female Leadership in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans Ina Johanna Fandrich RACE AND MASCULINITY IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PRISON NARRATIVES Auli Ek SWINGING THE VERNACULAR Jazz and African American Modernist Literature Michael Borshuk BOYS, BOYZ, BOIS An Ethics of Black Masculinity in Film and Popular Media Keith M. Harris MOVEMENT MATTERS American Antiapartheid Activism and the Rise of Multicultural Politics David L. Hostetter SLAVERY, SOUTHERN CULTURE, AND EDUCATION IN LITTLE DIXIE, MISSOURI, 1820–1860 Jeffrey C. Stone 94544_Stone_12_22.qxp 12/22/2005 10:10 AM Page iii SLAVERY, SOUTHERN CULTURE, AND EDUCATION IN LITTLE DIXIE, MISSOURI, 1820–1860 Jeffrey C. Stone Routledge New York & London RT7772X_Discl.fm Page 1 Wednesday, December 14, 2005 2:33 PM Published in 2006 by Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 270 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 Published in Great Britain by Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 2 Park Square Milton Park, Abingdon Oxon OX14 4RN © 2006 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 International Standard Book Number-10: 0-415-97772-X (Hardcover) International Standard Book Number-13: 978-0-415-97772-2 (Hardcover) Library of Congress Card Number 2005031152 No part of this book may be reprinted, reproduced, transmitted, or utilized in any form by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying, microfilming, and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Stone, Jeffrey C. Slavery, Southern culture, and education in Little Dixie, Mi