Families in crisis in the Old South : divorce, slavery, and the law /

"In the antebellum South, divorce was an explosive issue. As one lawmaker put it, divorce was to be viewed as a form of 'madness, ' and as another asserted, divorce reduced communities to the 'lowest ebb of degeneracy.' How was it that in this climate, the number of divorces...

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Main Author: Schweninger, Loren (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
Series:UNC Press law publications.
Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law.
Women and the law.
Civil rights and social justice.
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