'Til Death Or Distance Do Us Part: Love and Marriage in African America
by Frances Smith Foster
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Most people believe that marriages were forbidden and families destroyed during the era of slavery in the United States; however, this book demonstrates that antebellum publications by African Americans for African Americans about themselves do not support these conclusions.Tags
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Frances Smith Foster is Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Womens Studies (Emeritus) at Emory University.
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- Nonfiction, Anthropology, History, Sociology, General Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 305.896073 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Ethnic and national groups Other ethnic and national groups Africans and people of African descent; Blacks of African origin standard subdivisions / located in North America African Americans {United States Blacks}
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- E185.86 .F673 — History of the United States United States Elements in the population Afro-Americans Status and development since emancipation
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