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Alabama Cohabitation Records[edit | edit source]
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Alabama State Law[edit | edit source]
Section 1: Be it ordained by the people of the State of Alabama in convention assembled, That all marriages between freedmen and freedwomen, whether in a state of slavery or since their emapcipation, heretofore solemnized by any one acting or officiating as a minister, or any one claiming to exercise the right to solemnize the rites of matrimony, whether bond or free, are hereby ratified and made valid, provided the parties are now living togher as man and wife; and in all cases of freedmen and freedwomen who are now living together recognizing each other as man and wife, be it ordained that the same are hereby declared to be man and wife, and bound by the legal obligation of such relationship.[1]
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- ↑ White, Barnetta McGhee, Ph.D., Somebody Knows My Name: Marriages of Freed People in N.C. County by County. (Athens, GA: Iberian Publishing Co.), 1995.