TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hunter,Tera W.
TI  - Bound in wedlock: slave and free black marriage in the nineteenth century 
SN  - 9780674979208
AV  - E185 .B686 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - The Belnap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Marriage customs and rites
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Slaves
KW  - United States
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Free African Americans
KW  - Marriage
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction: "The marriage certificate" --; "Until distance do you part" --; "God made marriage, but the white man made the law" --; Marriage rights require 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; 2; b
N2  - "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"--Publisher's description
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