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Free Download Allison Dorothy Fredette, "Marriage on the Border: Love, Mutuality, and Divorce in the Upper South during the Civil War "
English | ISBN: 0813179157 | 2020 | 298 pages | EPUB | 820 KB
Not quite the Cotton Kingdom or the free labor North, the nineteenth-century border South was a land in between. Here, the era's clashing values―slavery and freedom, city and country, industry and agriculture―met and melded. In factories and plantations along the Ohio River, a unique regional identity emerged: one rooted in kinship, tolerance, and compromise. Border families articulated these hybrid values in both the legislative hall and the home. While many defended patriarchal households as an essential part of slaveholding culture, communities on the border pressed for increased mutuality between husbands and wives.
Drawing on court records, personal correspondence, and prescriptive literature,
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