Divorce, Slavery, and the Law
by
Loren Schweninger
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
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...