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.

Author/creator	Hunter, Tera W. author.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017.
Copyright Notice	©2017
Description	404 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 25 cm
Subject(s)	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. Slave marriage--United States --History --19th century.

Contents	Introduction: "The marriage certificate" -- "Until distance do you part" -- "God made marriage, but the white man made the law" -- Marriage rights require 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 -- Epilogue: legacies and challenges.
Abstract	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/form	Genealogical tables.
Genre/form	History.
Genre/form	Genealogical tables.
LCCN	2016054878
ISBN	9780674045712 (alk. paper)
ISBN	0674045718

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	E185.86 .H86 2017	✔ Available	Place Hold