About the Author

Peter Wallenstein teaches history at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His previous books include Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law - An American History.

Reviews

There's nothing like this work in the literature of Virginia history....I admire what Wallenstein has done and how he has done it. And I learned from him. - Charles McCurdy, Professor of History at the University of Virginia, author of The Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865