Welcome back to Unholy Ground with Andra Watkins and Sam Osterhout. Last week, we covered something called Coverture, but it’s so foundational to the worldview of the white Christian nationalists who currently run our nation that we needed a Part II.
As a refresher, coverture is a legal doctrine from English and American common law that treated a married woman’s legal identity as “covered” by her husband’s. In other words, once a woman gets married, she stops being a person. That might be oversimplifying it, but not by much.
It sounds like something from old English literature, but it’s making a sharp comeback.
Think you’re safe because you live in a blue state? Think again.
