Bound in wedlock
Subtitle: slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century
By: Tera W. Hunter
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780674045712
Subjects: Social life and customs; Marriage; Slaves; Free African Americans; Social conditions; Marriage customs and rites; African Americans; History
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.-- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The marriage certificate; title: "Until distance do you part"; title: "God made marriage, but the white man made the law"; title: More than manumission; title: Marriage "under the flag"; title: A civil war over marriage; title: Reconstructing intimacies; title: "The most cruel wrongs"; title: Hopes and travails at century's end; title: Epilogue: Legacies and challenges.