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Author:

Hunter, Tera W., author.

Title:

Bound in wedlock : slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century / Tera W. Hunter.

Publisher:

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

404 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 25 cm

Subject:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: The marriage certificate -- "Until distance do you part" -- "God made marriage, but the white man made the law" -- 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.-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0674045718
9780674045712

OCLC:

(OCoLC)959648496

LCCN:

2016054878

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)