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

Title
  1. Bound in wedlock : slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century / Tera W. Hunter.
Published by
  1. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017.
  2. ©2017
Author
  1. Hunter, Tera W.

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Description
  1. 404 pages : illustrations, genealogical table; 25 cm
Summary
  1. 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.--
Subject
  1. 1800-1899
  2. African Americans > Marriage customs and rites > 19th century
  3. African Americans > Social life and customs > 19th century
  4. Enslaved persons > United States > Social conditions > 19th century
  5. Enslaved persons > United States > Social life and customs > 19th century
  6. Free African Americans > Social life and customs > 19th century
  7. Marriage > United States > History > 19th century
  8. Slave marriage > United States > History > 19th century
  9. Noirs américains > Rites et cérémonies du mariage > 19e siècle
  10. Noirs américains > Mœurs et coutumes > 19e siècle
  11. Esclaves > États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle
  12. Esclaves > États-Unis > Mœurs et coutumes > 19e siècle
  13. Noirs américains affranchis > Mœurs et coutumes > 19e siècle
  14. Mariage > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle
  15. Slave marriage
  16. African Americans > Marriage customs and rites
  17. African Americans > Social life and customs
  18. Marriage
  19. Enslaved persons > Social conditions
  20. Enslaved persons > Social life and customs
  21. Eherecht
  22. Schwarze
  23. Sklave
  24. Slaves > United States > Social conditions > 19th century
  25. Slaves > United States > Social life and customs > 19th century
  26. Free African Americans > Social conditions > 19th century
  27. United States
  28. USA
Genre/Form
  1. genealogical tables.
  2. History
  3. Genealogical tables
  4. Tableaux généalogiques.
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Credits (note)
  1. Jacket photograph: Soldier and Companion, c. 1861-1865. Detroit Institute of Arts, USA / Founders Society Purchase, DeRoy Photographic Acquisition Endowment Fund and Coville Photographic Fund / Bridgeman Images.
  2. Design: Annamarie McMahon Why.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain
Awards (note)
  1. American Historical Association Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, 2018.