Til death or distance do us part : love and marriage in African America Frances Smith Foster offers a groundbreaking new portrait of early African American marriage upending the conventional wisdom that marriage was illegal for African Americans during the antebellum era or that if people married at all their vows were tenuous ones. Intro Contents Preface ONE: Adam and Eve Antoney and Isabella TWO: Terms of Endearment THREE: Practical Thoughts Divine Mandates and the Afro Protestant Press FOUR: Rights and Rituals FIVE: Myths Memory and Self Realization SIX: Getting Stories Straight Keeping Them Real SEVEN: Alchemy of Personal Politics EIGHT: Me Mende and Sankofa: An Epilogue Notes Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U W.