Jerome J Nadelhaft
'for every wrong there is a remedy': changing law and fleeing wives in nineteenth-century America (O Lord, How Long? Essays about Wife Torture and
Throughout the nineteenth century, husbands were jailed, wives won divorces, alimony, support, and, indeed, in many states, a clear right to run away and to enlist the help of neighbors, relatives, and friends, although none of those protections separately, and not all of them together, effectively ...
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