TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hunter, Tera W.,
TI  - Bound in wedlock: slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century 
SN  - 9780674045712
AV  - E185.86 .H86 2017
U1  - 390/.25097309034 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England
PB  - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Marriage customs and rites
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Slaves
KW  - United States
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Free African Americans
KW  - Marriage
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Eherecht
KW  - gnd
KW  - Schwarze
KW  - Sklave
KW  - nli
KW  - USA
KW  - Genealogical tables
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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; Design: Annamarie McMahon Why
N2  - 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.--
UR  - https://lccn.loc.gov/2016054878
ER  -