S09 E03 Chesser & Holly: A Collision of Love, Race, and Law in Nineteenth-Century Arkansas

C19: America in the 19th Century by C19 Podcast

In 1888, James Chesser and Georgianna Holly married in the growing city of Fort Smith, Arkansas. A few months later during James's arrest, courts argued that Georgianna was legally a man. Legal and social structures at t...View more