Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

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Written By pam waterman
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Tera W. Hunter
Harvard University Press

Bound in Wedlock is the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century. Drawing from plantation records, legal documents, and personal family papers, it reveals the many creative ways enslaved couples found to upend white Christian ideas of marriage.

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