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Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
Bound in Wedlock Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Tera W. Hunter
Americans have long viewed marriage between a white man and a white woman as a sacred union. But marriages between African Americans have seldom been treated with the same reverence. This discriminatory legacy traces back to centuries of slavery, when the overwhelming majority of black married couples were bound in servitude as well as wedlock. ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674045712
ISBN-10: 0674045718
Publication Date: 4/24/2017
Pages: 380
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Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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