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Families in crisis in the Old South : divorce, slavery, and the law
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Families in crisis in the Old South : divorce, slavery, and the law / Loren Schweninger.
ISBN
9780807835692 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807835692 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.
Physical Description
xv, 236 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 01, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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