Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2017
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780674979246
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780674045712, 9780674237452
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 01/22/20
- Copyrighted By:
- Tera W. Hunter
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.