You might wish to consult my Encyclopedia Virginia entry on the Virginia Cohabitation Act of 1866 at https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Cohabitation_Act_of_1866 and Catherine A. Jones’s Intimate Reconstructions: Children in Postemancipation Virginia (Charlottesville, 2015).
Brent Tarter
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