Download or read book Escaping Matrimony written by Antonio T. Bly and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escaping Matrimony is a documentary history of hundreds of husbands and wives who ran away from one another over the course of the eighteenth-century. In this collection of elopement advertisements, men and women protested marriage, challenged coverture, and declared themselves independent and free. In an endeavor to discredit and intimidated their spouses, husbands and wives used early American newspapers to achieved at once voice and agency in a complex world that would have preferred that they endured unnoticed and in silence.