Bound in wedlock slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century
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 relation...
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Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
2017
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Zusammenfassung: | 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.... |
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Beschreibung: | 404 Seiten Illustrationen, 1 genealogische Tafel |
ISBN: | 9780674045712 978-0-674-04571-2 9780674237452 |