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Bound in wedlock : slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century
- Title
- Bound in wedlock : slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century / Tera W. Hunter.
- Author
- Hunter, Tera W.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017.
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- Description
- 404 pages : illustrations, genealogical table; 25 cm
- Summary
- 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.--
- Subject
- 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
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 17-786
- ISBN
- 9780674045712
- 0674045718
- LCCN
- 2016054878
- OCLC
- 959648496
- Author
- Hunter, Tera W., author.
- Title
- Bound in wedlock : slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century / Tera W. Hunter.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 17-786