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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
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017

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 MELB  390.250973 Hun/Biw  AVAILABLE
Description 404 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 25 cm
Contents 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 -- "To correct as far as possible the most cruel wrongs" -- Hopes and travails at century's end
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.--
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject African Americans -- Marriage customs and rites -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Free African Americans -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Marriage -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Slaves -- United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
LC no. 2016054878
ISBN 9780674045712