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Families in Crisis in the Old South - Divorce, Slavery, and the Law (Paperback, New Ed)
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Families in Crisis in the Old South - Divorce, Slavery, and the Law (Paperback, New Ed)
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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, the number of
divorces rose steadily during the antebellum era? In Families in
Crisis in the Old South, Loren Schweninger uses previously
unexplored records to argue that the difficulties these divorcing
families faced reveal much about the reality of life in a
slave-holding society as well as the myriad difficulties confronted
by white southern families who chose not to divorce. Basing his
argument on almost 800 divorce cases from the southern United
States, Schweninger explores the impact of divorce and separation
on white families and on the enslaved and provides insights on
issues including domestic violence, interracial adultery,
alcoholism, insanity, and property relations. He examines how
divorce and separation laws changed, how married women's property
rights expanded, how definitions of inhuman treatment of wives
evolved, and how these divorces challenged conventional mores.
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