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Loading... Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Centuryby Tera W. Hunter
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I really enjoyed this--at first, I wasn't sure there was much here that was new, but the later chapters especially I think extend to think about marriage not just as part of accessing citizenship for Black people but also as a mechanism to control them, and that to me was new and really interesting. There are definitely portions of this that would be really great for use in undergraduate classes, and it's very well-researched and well-written! ( ) no reviews | add a review
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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 relationships under conditions of uncertainty and cruelty.-- No library descriptions found. |
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