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Reluctant emancipator : James Sidney Rollins and the politics of slavery and freedom in the border south, 1838-1882
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation examines the career of James Sidney Rollins, a free-soil slave owning politician and lawyer in Missouri, to garner a better understanding of the politics...
Concealed authorship on the eve of the revolution : pseudonymity and the American periodical public sphere, 1766-1776
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Concealed authorship played a vital role in the critical ten years prior to American independence. Authors utilized printers as cover to publish political essays seditious and disruptive to British authority. Pseudonymity, ...