Bound in Wedlock : Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century / Tera W. Hunter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunter, Tera W., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

African Americans.

African Americans--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.

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

Enslaved persons.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. " Until Distance Do You Part"

2. "God Made Marriage, but the White Man Made the Law"

3. More Than Manumission

4. Marriage " under the Flag"

5. A Civil War over Marriage

6. Reconstructing Intimacies

7. "The Most Cruel Wrongs"

8. Hopes and Travails at Century's End

Epilogue

Abbreviations

Notes

Acknowledgments

Illustration Credits

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

ISBN:

9780674979208

0674979206

OCLC:

984643450