Bound in wedlock : slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century /

Bound in wedlock : slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century / Tera W. Hunter.

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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 re...

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Main Author: Hunter, Tera W. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
African Americans > Marriage customs and rites > 19th century.
African Americans > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Enslaved persons > United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Enslaved persons > United States > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Free African Americans > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Marriage > United States > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Marriage customs and rites.
African Americans > Social life and customs.
Marriage.
Enslaved persons > Social conditions.
Enslaved persons > Social life and customs.
United States.
History.

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