Marital Cruelty In Antebellum America

Authors

Lindsay A. Silver

ISBN

9780807163108

Price

$48.00

Publisher

LSU Press

Abstract

DUTY OVER LOVE: CHARGES OF CRUELTY IN ANTEBELLUM DIVORCE In Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America, Robin C. Sager looks at over 1500 divorce cases from Virginia, Texas, and Wisconsin from 1840 to 1860 and argues that antebellum Americans understood and valued their marriages in terms of gend....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.18.4.22

Recommended Citation

Silver, Lindsay A. (2016) "Marital Cruelty In Antebellum America," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 18 : Iss. 4 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.18.4.22
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol18/iss4/17