Bound in Wedlock

Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

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Tera W. Hunter: Bound in Wedlock (2017, Harvard University Press)

416 pages

English language

Published 2017 by Harvard University Press.

ISBN:
978-0-674-97920-8
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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.

5 editions

Subjects

  • African americans, social life and customs
  • Slaves, united states, social conditions
  • Free african americans
  • Marriage, united states