Bound in Wedlock : Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunter, Tera W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Marriage customs and rites--19th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social life and customs--19th century.

Enslaved persons--United States--Social conditions--19th century.

Enslaved persons.

Enslaved persons--United States--Social life and customs--19th century.

Free African Americans--Social life and customs--19th century.

Free African Americans.

Marriage--United States--History--19th century.

Marriage.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Bound in Wedlock is the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century. Tera W. Hunter reveals the myriad ways couples adopted, adapted, revised and rejected white Christian ideas of marriage, creatively setting their own standards for conjugal relationships under conditions of uncertainty and cruelty.-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction: The marriage certificate

"Until distance do you part"

"God made marriage, but the white man made the law"

More than manumission

Marriage "under the flag"

A civil war over marriage

Reconstructing intimacies

"The most cruel wrongs"

Hopes and travails at century's end.

Credits:

Jacket photograph: Soldier and Companion, c. 1861-1865. Detroit Institute of Arts, USA / Founders Society Purchase, DeRoy Photographic Acquisition Endowment Fund and Coville Photographic Fund / Bridgeman Images.

Design: Annamarie McMahon Why.

Notes:

Copyright © 2017 by Tera W. Hunter.

Printed in the United States of America.

First printing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780674979246

0674979249

OCLC:

984643450

Publisher Number:

2027/heb34033 hdl