Publication

2017 - Harvard University Press

Language

English

Word Count

104,000 words, Guess

Page Count

416 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780674979208
  • ISBN-100674979206
  • Better World Books9780674979208
  • Open LibraryOL29793091M

Classifications

  • LCCE185

Description

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.

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Other Editions

  • Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth CenturyHarvard University Press2017-01-01

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