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Bound in wedlock : slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century / Tera W. Hunter.
- 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.
- ©2017
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Details
- 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
- 1800-1899
- 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
- Slave marriage > United States > History > 19th century
- Noirs américains > Rites et cérémonies du mariage > 19e siècle
- Noirs américains > Mœurs et coutumes > 19e siècle
- Esclaves > États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle
- Esclaves > États-Unis > Mœurs et coutumes > 19e siècle
- Noirs américains affranchis > Mœurs et coutumes > 19e siècle
- Mariage > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle
- Slave marriage
- African Americans > Marriage customs and rites
- African Americans > Social life and customs
- Marriage
- Enslaved persons > Social conditions
- Enslaved persons > Social life and customs
- Eherecht
- Schwarze
- Sklave
- Slaves > United States > Social conditions > 19th century
- Slaves > United States > Social life and customs > 19th century
- Free African Americans > Social conditions > 19th century
- United States
- USA
- Genre/Form
- genealogical tables.
- History
- Genealogical tables
- Tableaux généalogiques.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Credits (note)
- Jacket photograph: Soldier and Companion, c. 1861-1865. Detroit Institute of Arts, USA / Founders Society Purchase, DeRoy Photographic Acquisition Endowment Fund and Coville Photographic Fund / Bridgeman Images.
- Design: Annamarie McMahon Why.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Awards (note)
- American Historical Association Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, 2018.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780674045712
- 0674045718
- 9780674237452
- 0674237455
- LCCN
- 2016054878
- OCLC
- 959648496
- SCSB-11782814
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library