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Families in Crisis in the Old South: Divorce, Slavery, and the Law
Families in Crisis in the Old South Divorce Slavery and the Law
Author: Loren Schweninger
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 rose steadily during the antebellum era? In Families in Crisis, Loren Sch...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780807835692
ISBN-10: 0807835692
Publication Date: 9/10/2012
Pages: 264
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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