Bound in Wedlock

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.

subjects: Social life and customs,  Marriage,  Slaves,  Free African Americans,  Social conditions,  Marriage customs and rites,  African Americans,  History,  African americans, social life and customs,  Slaves, united states, social conditions,  Marriage, united states

Places: United States

Times: 19th century