Wonderful audio microhistory of an interracial, gender-nonconforming couple in post-Reconstruction Arkansas by Rachel Trusty:
"Chesser & Holly: A Collision of Love, Race, and Law in Nineteenth-Century Arkansas"
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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 so
