'Til Death or Distance Do Us Part : Love and Marriage in African America.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780199716517
- African Americans -- Marriage -- History
- African Americans -- Marriage customs and rites -- History
- Slaves -- Family relationships -- United States -- History
- Marriage customs and rites -- United States
- Marriage -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
- United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865
- 305.896073
- E185.86.F673 2010
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.
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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