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Languages : en
Pages : 740

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Author: Tera W. Hunter
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN: 0674237455
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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Winner of the Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History Winner of the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize Winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize Winner of the Mary Nickliss Prize Winner of the Willie Lee Rose Prize Americans have long viewed marriage between a white man and a white woman as a sacred union. But marriages between African Americans have seldom been treated with the same reverence. This discriminatory legacy traces back to centuries of slavery, when the overwhelming majority of black married couples were bound in servitude as well as wedlock, but it does not end there. Bound in Wedlock is the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century. Drawing from plantation records, legal documents, and personal family papers, it reveals the many creative ways enslaved couples found to upend white Christian ideas of marriage. “A remarkable book... Hunter has harvested stories of human resilience from the cruelest of soils... An impeccably crafted testament to the African-Americans whose ingenuity, steadfast love and hard-nosed determination protected black family life under the most trying of circumstances.” —Wall Street Journal “In this brilliantly researched book, Hunter examines the experiences of slave marriages as well as the marriages of free blacks.” —Vibe “A groundbreaking history... Illuminates the complex and flexible character of black intimacy and kinship and the precariousness of marriage in the context of racial and economic inequality. It is a brilliant book.” —Saidiya Hartman, author of Lose Your Mother

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Languages : en
Pages : 958

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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 908

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Author: William Babington Maxwell
Publisher: Copp, Clark Company [1909?]
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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Author: Allen Raine
Publisher: W. Briggs
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 928

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Author: Copyright Office
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Languages : en
Pages : 1228

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Author: George Brown Burgin
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1240

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