Bibliograph

Bound in wedlock, slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century, Tera W. Hunter

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Label

Bound in wedlock, slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century, Tera W. Hunter

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

genealogical tablesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bound in wedlock

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

959648496

Responsibility statement

Tera W. Hunter

Sub title

slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century

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.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of 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

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