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Hunter, Tera W., author.

Title Bound in Wedlock [electronic resource] : slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century / Tera W. Hunter.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England : Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 2017.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	ix, 404 p. : Grayscale Illustration ; 25 cm.
Series	ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Note	Copyright © 2017 by Tera W. Hunter.
	Printed in the United States of America.
	First printing.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: The Marriage Certificate -- "Until Distance Do You Part" -- "God Made Marriage, but the White Man Made the Law" -- More Than Manumission -- Marriage "under the Flag" -- A Civil War over Marriage -- Reconstructing Intimacies -- "The Most Cruel Wrongs" -- Hopes and Travails at Century's End.
Credits	Jacket photograph: Soldier and Companion, c. 1861-1865. Detroit Institute of Arts, USA / Founders Society Purchase, DeRoy Photographic Acquisition Endowment Fund and Coville Photographic Fund / Bridgeman Images.
	Design: Annamarie McMahon Why.
Reproduction	Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2021. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
Note	All rights reserved.
Subject	African Americans -- Marriage customs and rites -- 19th century.
	African Americans -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
	Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
	Slaves -- United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
	Free African Americans -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
	Marriage -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	African.
Genre/Form	Electronic books
Added Author	American Council of Learned Societies.
In:	ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
ISBN	9780674045712 paper
Standard No.	2027/heb34033 hdl