Manuscript of Women, Church, and State: Religion and the Culture of Individual Rights in Nineteenth-Century America
Document Type
Contents
Publication Date
Spring 1990
Abstract
In the covenant of marriage, woman is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master -- the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty, and to administer chastisement. He has so framed the law of divorce . . . as to be wholly regardless of the happiness of women -- the law, in all cases, going upon a false supposition of the supremacy of man, and giving all power into his hands.
Recommended Citation
Elizabeth B. Clark, Matrimonial Bonds: Slavery and Divorce in Nineteenth-Century America, 8 Law & Hist. Rev. 25 (1990), reprinted in Women, Church, and State: Religion and the Culture of Individual Rights in Nineteenth-Century America (Hendrik Hartog & Thomas A. Green, eds.), https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/clark_book/6/.
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