Families in Crisis in the Old South: Divorce, Slavery, and the Law by Loren Schweninger

Families in Crisis in the Old South: Divorce, Slavery, and the Law

Loren Schweninger

236 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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, ...

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