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 rose s...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2012]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- The evolution of divorce laws
- Adultery and the question of race
- Insanity, alcoholism, abandonment, and abuse
- Lawyers, judges, juries, and decrees
- Married women and property
- Slaves and owners' domestic conflicts
- Conclusion
- An essay on sources and methodology
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.