TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foster,Frances Smith
TI  - 'Til Death or Distance Do Us Part: Love and Marriage in African America
SN  - 9780199716517
AV  - E185.86.F673 2010 
U1  - 305.896073 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cary
PB  - Oxford University Press USA - OSO
KW  - African Americans -- Marriage -- History
KW  - African Americans -- Marriage customs and rites -- History
KW  - Slaves -- Family relationships -- United States -- History
KW  - Marriage customs and rites -- United States
KW  - Marriage -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
KW  - United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- ONE: Adam and Eve, Antoney and Isabella -- TWO: Terms of Endearment -- THREE: Practical Thoughts, Divine Mandates, and the Afro-Protestant Press -- FOUR: Rights and Rituals -- FIVE: Myths, Memory, and Self-Realization -- SIX: Getting Stories Straight, Keeping Them Real -- SEVEN: Alchemy of Personal Politics -- EIGHT: Me, Mende, and Sankofa: An Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W
N2  - Frances Smith Foster offers a groundbreaking new portrait of early African American marriage, upending the conventional wisdom that marriage was illegal for African Americans during the antebellum era, or that if people married at all, their vows were tenuous ones
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