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Noting that there is a lot of controversy these days about marriage, but that everyone still likes a wedding, Charsley (sociology, U. of Glasgow) looses his dis
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After the Civil War, Emancipation purportedly brought physical freedom to African Americans. As the nineteenth century drew to a close, blacks continued to expe