Bound in wedlock [electronic resource] : slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century / Tera W. Hunter.
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 unde...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2017.
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Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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.-- |c Provided by publisher | ||
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