Our Long Fight Against Control of Marriage

A Social History of the American Family from Colonial ...

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Arthur Wallace Calhoun - 1917 - ‎Families

REGULATION AND SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGE IN THE SOUTHERN ... and nationalities in the colonial South, marriage came under vary ing control. Church of England bigotry is most conspicuous in Virginia, Maryland, and North ... In North Carolina initial tolerance was similarly abrogated during the colonial period.

The American Family in the Colonial Period

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Arthur W. Calhoun - 2013 - ‎History

... marriage came under varying control. Church of England bigotry is most conspicuous in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina. In Virginia throughout the ...

Marriage Will Never Set Us Free - Organizing Upgrade

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Sep 6, 2013 - Civil marriage is a tool of social control used by governments to regulate ... Feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial social movements have ...

 

"Domestic Rituals: Marriage and Baptism in the British ...

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by NM Beasley - ‎2007 - ‎Cited by 2 - ‎Related articles

The British plantation colonies were fertile in only one sense, as places ... to be in control, able to exercise the church's authority over the marriages of its people. ... The couple who entered their parish church for a wedding in England thus ...

 

North Carolina History Project : Marriage, History of

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In the colony, such regulation was necessary because the process of ... In addition, the church and the state had an interest in preventing bigamous marriages or ... only Church of England ministers could legally perform marriage rites. ... In 1741 the state increased its control over marriages by enacting provisions for issuing ...