(Those traveling long distances would be lucky to board one of the brand-new railroads that had begun to crisscross the nation.) Slavery, though hotly contested, was still legal, and women’s legal identities were subsumed by their husband’s upon marriage under the system of coverture. People cooked with fire, read by candlelight, and rode in carriages or on horses. Homes had no electricity or running water. Even though the United States had boomed in size in the decades since its founding, daily life for most Americans remained largely unchanged by 1860.
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