An edition of Bound in wedlock
(2017)
Bound in wedlock
slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century
by Tera W. Hunter
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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 rejected White Christian ideas of marriage, creatively setting their own standards for conjugal relationships under conditions of uncertainty and cruelty.-- Provided by publisher.
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Social life and customs, Marriage, Slaves, Free African Americans, Social conditions, Marriage customs and rites, African Americans, History, African americans, social life and customs, Slaves, united states, social conditions, Free african americans, Marriage, united statesPlaces
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Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
Feb 18, 2019, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
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Bound in wedlock: slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century
2017
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Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
2017, Harvard University Press
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Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
2017, Harvard University Press
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Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
2017, Harvard University Press
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Table of 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
Epilogue: Legacies and challenges.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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