ArticlesSlave Owners in Missouri
Mutti Burke’s research covers slave-owners as well as slaves, examining their strategies in a border state. Small slaveholders were at risk for falling out of slave-owning at any time due to lack of funds; there was also the rising conflict of the Civil War.
Teaching and mentoring students takes a tremendous amount of energy. The UMRB allowed me to dedicate time to work on a book manuscript.
On Slavery
Diane Mutti Burke
Assistant Professor, History
UM Kansas City
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- History Department at UMKC
- Diane Mutti Burke's Website
- "Slavery in the United States"
- Kansas City, America’s Crossroads: Essays from the Missouri Historical Review
- “'Mah Pappy Belong to a Neighbor': The Effects of Abroad Marriages on Missouri Slave Families"
- Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition