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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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Introduction: The Marriage Certificate
1. “Until Distance Do You Part”
2. “God Made Marriage, but the White Man Made the Law”
3. More than Manumission
4. Marriage “under the Flag”
5. A Civil War over Marriage
6. Reconstructing Intimacies
7. “The Most Cruel Wrongs”
8. Hopes and Travails at Century’s End
Epilogue: Legacies and Challenges
Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
Index

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