Bound in wedlock : slave and free black marriage in the nineteenth century / Tera W. Hunter.
2017
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Author
Title
Bound in wedlock : slave and free black marriage in the nineteenth century / Tera W. Hunter.
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : The Belnap Press of Harvard University Press, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Description
1 online resource (x, 404 pages) : illustrations, genealogical table
Formatted Contents Note
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.
"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.
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"--Publisher's description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Description
Online resource; title from resource home page (EbscoHost, viewed April 15, 2020).
Available in Other Form
Hunter, Tera W. Bound in wedlock. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017
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Language
English
ISBN
9780674979208 (electronic book)
0674979206 (electronic book)
9780674045712 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0674045718 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780674237452 (paperback)
0674237455 (paperback)
9780674979246 (e-book)
0674979249
0674979206 (electronic book)
9780674045712 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0674045718 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780674237452 (paperback)
0674237455 (paperback)
9780674979246 (e-book)
0674979249
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