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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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2012]
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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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KF505 .S39 2012 |
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