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Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9780674979208
DOI
10.4159/9780674979208
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7841168 bytes)
Pages
416\416
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 06:36:57

Description

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.

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