Heartsick and Astonished

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Divorce in Civil War-Era West Virginia

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New Perspectives on the Civil War Era Series

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Heartsick and Astonished features twenty-seven divorce cases from mid-nineteenth century America. More than dry legal documents, these cases provide a captivating window into marital life—and strife—in the border South during the tumultuous years before, during, and after the Civil War. Allison Dorothy Fredette has brought these primary documents to light, revealing the inner thoughts, legal hardships, and day-to-day struggles of these average citizens. In Wheeling, West Virginia, the seat of Ohio County, courtrooms bore witness to men and women from various ethnic, racial, and class backgrounds who shared shockingly intimate details of their lives and relationships. Some tried desperately to defend their masculinity or femininity; others hoped to restore their reputations to the legal system and to their community. In an era of uncertainty—when the country was torn in two, when the Wheeling community became the capital of a new state, and when activists across the country began to push for women’s rights in the household and family—the divorce cases of ordinary couples reveal changing attitudes toward marriage, gender, and legal separation in a booming border city perched on the edge of the South.

Author Biography:

Allison Dorothy Fredette is assistant professor of history at Appalachian State University. She is the author of Marriage on the Border: Love, Mutuality, and Divorce in the Upper South during the Civil War and has chapters in Rethinking American Emancipation: Legacies of Slavery and the Quest for Black Freedom and West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies. She lives in Boone, North Carolina.

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May 15th, 2023

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Professional & Vocational

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Edited by Allison Dorothy Fredette

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9 b&w images

Pages

304

Series

New Perspectives on the Civil War Era Series

ISBN-13

9780820364285

Product ID

36120413

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