Moments of Despair: Suicide, Divorce, and Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina

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Alderman, Edwin A., 196 Alexander, John Brevard, 51, 217–18 Alexander, Lizzie, 35 Alston, Tony, 100–101 AME Zion Church, 119–21 Anderson, Jeannie, 36 Arrington, Pattie, 117 Avera, David, 32 Avery, Alphonso, 125 Avery, Isaac Erwin, 38–39 Aycock, Charles, 39, 129, 132–34 Ball, Charles, 17–20, 151 Barnes, Mariah, 165 Beard, Ida, 117, 184–85, 189, 197–200 Belk, William Henry, 181–82 Bender, Thomas, 219 Bennehan, Thomas, 143, 145–46 Benton, Thomas Hart, 155–56 Berlin, Ira, 97 Bertram, R. A., 26 Blanchard, Charles W., 128–29 “Blanket marriages,” 90 Bodenhamer, Elizabeth, 60 Bolling, J. T., 36–37 Boone, Andrew, 101 Boone, Billy, 101 Bowling, Elizabeth, 103–4 Bowling, John, 103–4 Brady, James, 109 Brady, Nancy, 109 Brame, John Todd, 13 Briggs, Prudence, 81–82 Broad River Baptist Association, 89 Brown, Alfred, 60 Brown, H. T., 12–13 Brown, M. S., 65 Bryan, John A. Q., 108 Bullock, E. B., 124 Bullock, Jane, 124 Butler, Marion, 209, 212 Bynum, Victoria, 114 Calder, Phila, 188 Cameron, Duncan, 143, 145 Camus, Albert, 2 Candler, Thomas J., 171 Carr, Elias, 208 Carroll, Ashby, 31 Censer, Jane Turner, 191 Chapel of the Cross (Chapel Hill), 127 Cherry Hospital. See Eastern North Carolina Insane Asylum Cheshire, William Blount, 126–35 Chesnutt, Charles W., 40–41 Clinton, George W., 119, 122–23, 129 Index Index 292 Constitutional Convention of 1865, 45, 99 Constitutional Convention of 1868, 105–11, 169–72 Conway, T. J., 97 Cooke, Charles, 62 Cosgrove, Michael, 47 Couch, Emma, 103–4 Couch, Willie, 103–4 Cove Creek Baptist Church (Sherwood ), 86 Coverture, doctrine of, 76 Cowles, Calvin J., 108 Cowles, David, 33 Cowles, William H. H., 33 Crow, William, 25–26, 37 Crummell, Alexander, 123 Curtis, Mattie, 98 Daniels, Josephus, 24, 63–64, 66, 135 Davis, George, 86 Davis, Sary, 86 Dean, Eric T., 55 Debt: Bankruptcy Act of 1841 and, 155–58; Bankruptcy Act of 1867 and, 166–69, 172; black, antebellum, 151–53; black, postbellum, 168–74; boardinghouses and, 186; Civil War’s effect upon, 159–65; debt-slave metaphor , 141, 149, 174; general stores and, 173–82; gift economy and, 142– 43, 173; homestead legislation and, 148, 208; inflation, Civil War, 159–62; Insolvent Debtor Law, 148; pawnshops and, 184–86; stay laws, 163–66; white, antebellum, 141–58; white, postbellum, 165–74 DeVisconti, Lorenzo, 71–73, 80, 116 Divorce: black, antebellum, free, 93–94; black, antebellum, slave, 86–93; black, postbellum, 119–25; Catholic views of, 72; Civil War’s impact on, 95–111; freedmen, 96–101; Indiana laws concerning, 78; judicial, 77–78; legislative, 77; N.C. Supreme Court decisions on, 80–81, 116, 125–26; reform, 126–35; religious sanction of, 86, 89–90, 119–23; slaveowners’ views on slave, 87–89; trials, length of, 116; uncontested, 79–81; white, antebellum, 75–86; white, postbellum , 113–18, 125–35 Dix, Dorothea, 42–43 Dobbin, James C., 43 Domler, John, 11, 37 Dorothea Dix Hospital. See North Carolina Insane Asylum Douglass, Frederick, 17 DuBois, W. E. B., 183 Duke, Brodie Leonidas, 130–32 Duke, George J., 55–56 Dupree, Francis, 71, 73 Durrill, Wayne, 91 Eastern North Carolina Insane Asylum , 42, 49–51 Eaton, Thomas, 33 Edmundston, Catherine Ann Devereux , 159–60, 165 Einstein, Sig, 28 Ellis, John W., 43 Eno Presbyterian Church, 59–60 Ensley, Newell, 41 Farmers’ Alliance, 206–12 Faucette, Jana, 60 Faust, Drew, 219 Faw, Enoch, 12 Finkelstein, Harry, 185–86 Fisher, Edward, 43–44 Flat River Primitive Baptist Church, 89 Foster, Gaines M., 54–55 Franklin, John Hope, 151 Frapps, A. W., 35 Index 293 Freedmen’s Bureau, 97–99, 101, 170–71 Fuller, Thomas, 64–65 Galloway, Abraham, 171 Garrett, York, 182 Gaston, William, 77 Geeringer, Essex, 176–77 General stores. See Debt: general stores and Genovese, Eugene, 90 Glatthaar, Joseph, 58, 62 Glenn, Robert, 133 Goldston, J. J., 208 Graham, John W., 107 Grandy, Moses, 14–16, 89, 153 Grange, 206 Graves, Julia, 23–25, 62–65, 178–79, 189, 194–97 Graves, Ralph, 23–25, 62–65, 178, 194 Grissom, Eugene, 7–9, 44–49, 63–68 Gutman, Herbert, 90, 100 Hall, Lambert W., 60 Halliburton, John Wesley, 13 Hamilton, Robert, 13 Hammond, James Henry, 88 Hampton, W. W., 32 Hand, Annie, 32 Hargrove, Harriet, 124 Hargrove, Haywood, 124 Harman, William, 36 Harris, James, 110, 170 Hay Street Methodist Church (Fayetteville ), 86 Herndon, Chesley, 104 Herndon, Mary, 104 Hester, John, 25, 33, 37...