Bound in Wedlock

Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, African-American Studies, History, Americas, United States, 19th Century, Military
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Author: Tera W. Hunter ISBN: 9780674979246
Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication: April 24, 2017
Imprint: Harvard University Press Language: English
Author: Tera W. Hunter
ISBN: 9780674979246
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication: April 24, 2017
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Language: English

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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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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