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Nichols was not alone. A betrayal of marriage vows, adultery was a cause for divorce in most states as well as a basis for civil suits. After the Civil War, activists turned the act of adultery into a form of civil disobedience, culminating in Victoria Woodhull's publicly charging the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher with marital infidelity.
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