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Bound in Wedlock

Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

Tera W. Hunter

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ISBN 9780674237452

Publication Date: 02/18/2019

416 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

17 photos, 4 illus.

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Tera W. Hunter is the Edwards Professor of American History and Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University.

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Read Professor Hunter’s discussion with VIBE about the meaning(s) of marriage for African Americans both enslaved and free
Read an interview with Hunter about Bound in Wedlock at The Feminist Wire

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2018 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women’s History and/or Feminist Theory, American Historical Association

2018 Littleton-Griswold Prize in the History of American Law and Society, American Historical Association and the American Society for Legal History

2018 Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women’s and/or Gender History, Organization of American Historians

2018 Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History of Boston and Nantucket

2018 Willie Lee Rose Prize, Southern Association for Women Historians

Finalist, 2018 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Shortlist, 2018 Longman–History Today Book Prize, Pearson Longman Publishing and History Today Magazine

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