Bound in Wedlock : : Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century / / Tera W. Hunter.

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 relation...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.) :; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Introduction --
1. " Until Distance Do You Part" --
2. "God Made Marriage, but the White Man Made the Law" --
3. More Than Manumission --
4. Marriage " under the Flag" --
5. A Civil War over Marriage --
6. Reconstructing Intimacies --
7. "The Most Cruel Wrongs" --
8. Hopes and Travails at Century's End --
Epilogue --
Abbreviations --
Notes --
Acknowledgments --
Illustration Credits --
Index
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.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780674979208
9783110540550
9783110625264
9783110547764
9783110543315
DOI:10.4159/9780674979208
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Tera W. Hunter.