Tell the Court I Love My Wife

Tell the Court I Love My Wife
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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Total Pages : 326
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ISBN-10 : 9781466892613
ISBN-13 : 1466892617
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Book Synopsis Tell the Court I Love My Wife by : Peter Wallenstein

Download or read book Tell the Court I Love My Wife written by Peter Wallenstein and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth history of miscegenation law in the United States, this book illustrates in vivid detail how states, communities, and the courts have defined and regulated mixed-race marriage from the colonial period to the present. Combining a storyteller's detail with a historian's analysis, Peter Wallenstein brings the sagas of Richard and Mildred Loving and countless other interracial couples before them to light in this harrowing history of how individual states had the power to regulate one of the most private aspects of life: marriage.


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