Allison Dorothy FredetteALLISON DOROTHY FREDETTE is assistant professor of history at Appalachian State University. She is the author of Marriage on the Border: Love, Mutuality, and Divorce in the Upper South during the Civil War and has chapters in Rethinkng American Emancipation: Legacies of Slavery and the Quest for Black Freedom and West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies. She lives in Boone, North Carolina. Read More Read Less