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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Table of Contents:
- 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