- Description
- 1 online resource (404 pages) : illustrations, genealogical table.
- Summary
- Bound in Wedlock is the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century. Tera W. Hunter reveals the myriad ways couples adopted, adapted, revised and rejected white Christian ideas of marriage, creatively setting their own standards for conjugal relationships under conditions of uncertainty and cruelty.--
- Uniform Title
- Bound in wedlock (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Bound in wedlock (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: The marriage certificate -- "Until distance do you part" -- "God made marriage, but the white man made the law" -- 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.
- LCCN
- 2016054878
- OCLC
- ssj0002062243
- Author
Hunter, Tera W.
- Title
Bound in wedlock [electronic resource] : slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century / Tera W. Hunter.
- Imprint
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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