Bound in wedlock : slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century / Tera W. Hunter.
Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017 2017Description: 404 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780674045712
- 0674045718
- 9780674237452
- 0674237455
- African Americans -- Marriage customs and rites -- 19th century
- African Americans -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Slaves -- United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Free African Americans -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Marriage -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- African Americans -- Marriage customs and rites
- African Americans -- Social life and customs
- Marriage
- Slaves -- Social conditions
- Slaves -- Social life and customs
- United States
- Eherecht
- Schwarze
- Sklave
- USA
- African Americans -- Marriage customs and rites -- 19th century
- African Americans -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Slaves -- United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Free African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Marriage -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- 1800-1899
- 390/.25097309034 23
- E185.86 .H86 2017
- 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.
- American Historical Association Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, 2018.
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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.
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.
American Historical Association Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, 2018.
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.
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