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Bound in wedlock : slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century

Name: Bound in wedlock : slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century
ISBN: 9780674045712

Tera W. Hunter

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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.--

Categories:

History - American Studies

Year:

2017

Publisher:

Belknap Press

Language:

english

Pages:

417

ISBN 10:

0674045718