Bound in wedlock :
Hunter, Tera W.,
Bound in wedlock : slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century / Tera W. Hunter. - 404 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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. 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. Design: Annamarie McMahon Why.
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.--
American Historical Association Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, 2018.
9780674045712 0674045718 9780674237452 0674237455
2016054878
GBB7A6491 bnb
018394580 Uk
1800-1899
African Americans--Marriage customs and rites--19th century.
African Americans--Social life and customs--19th century.
Slaves--Social conditions--United States--19th century.
Slaves--Social life and customs--United States--19th century.
Free African Americans--Social life and customs--19th century.
Marriage--History--United States--19th century.
African Americans--Marriage customs and rites.
African Americans--Social life and customs.
Marriage.
Slaves--Social conditions.
Slaves--Social life and customs.
Eherecht
Schwarze
Sklave
African Americans--Marriage customs and rites--19th century.
African Americans--Social life and customs--19th century.
Slaves--Social conditions--United States--19th century.
Slaves--Social life and customs--United States--19th century.
Free African Americans--Social conditions--19th century.
Marriage--History--United States--19th century.
United States.
USA
History.
Genealogical tables.
Genealogical tables.
E185.86 / .H86 2017
390/.25097309034
Bound in wedlock : slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century / Tera W. Hunter. - 404 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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. 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. Design: Annamarie McMahon Why.
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.--
American Historical Association Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, 2018.
9780674045712 0674045718 9780674237452 0674237455
2016054878
GBB7A6491 bnb
018394580 Uk
1800-1899
African Americans--Marriage customs and rites--19th century.
African Americans--Social life and customs--19th century.
Slaves--Social conditions--United States--19th century.
Slaves--Social life and customs--United States--19th century.
Free African Americans--Social life and customs--19th century.
Marriage--History--United States--19th century.
African Americans--Marriage customs and rites.
African Americans--Social life and customs.
Marriage.
Slaves--Social conditions.
Slaves--Social life and customs.
Eherecht
Schwarze
Sklave
African Americans--Marriage customs and rites--19th century.
African Americans--Social life and customs--19th century.
Slaves--Social conditions--United States--19th century.
Slaves--Social life and customs--United States--19th century.
Free African Americans--Social conditions--19th century.
Marriage--History--United States--19th century.
United States.
USA
History.
Genealogical tables.
Genealogical tables.
E185.86 / .H86 2017
390/.25097309034