Marriage on the Border: Love, Mutuality, and Divorce in the Upper South During the Civil War

by Allison Dorothy Fredette

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813179157
• ISBN13: 9780813179155
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"