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Bound in wedlock : slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century
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Tera W. Hunter offers the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century and into the Jim Crow era. She reveals the practical ways couples adopted, adapted, or r...
Tera W. Hunter offers the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century and into the Jim Crow era. She reveals the practical ways couples adopted, adapted, or rejected White Christian ideas of marriage, creatively setting their own standards for conjugal relationships under conditions of uncertainty and cruelty.--
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- Creator
- Tera W. Hunter
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017
- Physical Details
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- 404 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780674979208, 9780674045712, 0674979249, 9780674237452, 0674979206, 0674045718, 9780674979246, 0674237455
- OCLC
- ocn984643450, ocn959648496
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: "The marriage certificate" -- "Until distance do you part" -- "God made marriage, but the white man made the law" -- Marriage rights require more than manumission -- Marriage "under the flag" -- A civil war over marriage -- Reconstructing intimacies -- "The most cruel wrongs" -- Hopes and travails at century's end -- Epilogue: legacies and challenges
Subjects
- African Americans -- Marriage customs and rites -- 19th century.
- African Americans -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
- Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
- Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
- Free African Americans -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
- Marriage -- United States -- History -- 19th century.