@article{ref1,
title=""… To Keep Her in the Station in Which She Was Raised": Spatial and Social Connections between Class and Companionate Matrimony in the Slave South",
journal="Journal of family history",
year="2011",
author="Edwards, Gary T.",
volume="36",
number="4",
pages="404-423",
abstract="Courtship choices and matrimonial partners remained highly limited and well defined in the late antebellum South but two categories encompassed the bulk of objectionable variables: community (&quot;spatial&quot;) and class (&quot;social&quot;). As a general rule, white antebellum southerners seldom married anyone residing outside their own space and rarely married anyone identified outside their own social place. This article examines these socio-spatial boundaries in the rural plantation regions of western Tennessee. Based on a detailed database of 122 new marriages in Madison County (1851-1855), the conclusions of this article reinforce the strength of these geocultural borders. Nine of ten white southerners married within their own class. However, a few notable exceptions complicate efforts to craft a monolithic interpretation, and exceptions are always illuminating. This article encourages reexamination of the subtle interplay between space and place in the slave South--as evidenced in the universal pursuit of matrimony.<p />",
language="",
issn="0363-1990",
doi="10.1177/0363199011413363",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0363199011413363"
}