The Resource Bound in wedlock : slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century, Tera W. Hunter
Bound in wedlock : slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century, Tera W. Hunter
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The item Bound in wedlock : slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century, Tera W. Hunter represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
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- Summary
- 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.--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 404 pages
- Contents
-
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780674045712
- Label
- Bound in wedlock : slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century
- Title
- Bound in wedlock
- Title remainder
- slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century
- Statement of responsibility
- Tera W. Hunter
- Subject
-
- Free African Americans -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Marriage -- United States -- 19th century
- Marriage -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- African Americans -- Marriage customs and rites -- 19th century
- Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Slaves -- United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Slaves -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- African Americans -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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.--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- MH/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hunter, Tera W
- Dewey number
- 390/.25097309034
- Illustrations
- genealogical tables
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E185.86
- LC item number
- .H86 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- African Americans
- African Americans
- Slaves
- Slaves
- Free African Americans
- Marriage
- African Americans
- African Americans
- Free African Americans
- Slaves
- Marriage
- Label
- Bound in wedlock : slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century, Tera W. Hunter
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocn959648496
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 404 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674045712
- Lccn
- 2016054878
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations, genealogical table
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780674045712
- (OCoLC)959648496
- Label
- Bound in wedlock : slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century, Tera W. Hunter
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocn959648496
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 404 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674045712
- Lccn
- 2016054878
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations, genealogical table
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780674045712
- (OCoLC)959648496
Subject
- Free African Americans -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Marriage -- United States -- 19th century
- Marriage -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- African Americans -- Marriage customs and rites -- 19th century
- Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Slaves -- United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Slaves -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- African Americans -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
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