Perfecting the Family: Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-century America - Hardcover

Dixon, Chris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 155849068X ISBN 13: 9781558490680

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997

Synopsis

Thirty years before the Civil War, radical abolitionists struggled to reform American society. They extended the crusade against slavery into the family; seeking to make their own marriages into models of affection and equality. Focusing on eight couples, this work explores their domestic lives.

About this title

About the Author:

Chris Dixon teaches history at the University of Newcastle in Australia.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 155849068X
• ISBN 13: 9781558490680
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336