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In Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America, Robin C. Sager probes the struggles of aggrieved spouses, shedding light on the nature of marriage and violence in the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War. Analyzing more than 1,500 divorce records that reveal intimate details of marriages in conflict in Virgina, Texas, and Wisconsin from 1840 to 1860, Sager offers a rare glimpse into the private lives of ordinary Americans shaken by accusations...