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Hunter, Tera W., author.

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

Publication Info.	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017.
	©2017

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Location	Call No.	Status
Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction	390.25 HUNTER	Check Shelf
New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction	390.25 HUN	Check Shelf

Description	404 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 25 cm
Summary	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	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: The marriage certificate -- "Until distance do you part" -- "God made marriage, but the white man made the law" -- 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.
Subject	Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
	African Americans -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
	African Americans -- Marriage customs and rites -- 19th century.
	Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
	Free African Americans -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
	Marriage -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN	9780674045712 hardcover alkaline paper
	0674045718 hardcover alkaline paper

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