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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780795803321

Autore

Foster Frances Smith

Titolo

'Til death or distance do us part [[electronic resource] ] : love and marriage in African America / / Frances Smith Foster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-19-988697-0

1-282-38389-2

9786612383892

0-19-971651-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 198 p.)

Disciplina

305.896073

Soggetti

African Americans - Marriage - History

African Americans - Marriage customs and rites - History

Enslaved persons - Family relationships - United States - History

Marriage customs and rites - United States

Marriage - Moral and ethical aspects - United States

United States Social conditions To 1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Adam and Eve, Antoney and Isabella -- Terms of endearment -- Practical thoughts, divine mandates, and the Afro-Protestant Press -- Rights and rituals -- Myths, memory, and self-realization -- Getting stories straight, keeping them real -- Alchemy of personal politics -- Me, Mende, and Sankofa : an epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

Most people believe that marriages were forbidden and families destroyed during the era of slavery in the United States; however, this book demonstrates that antebellum publications by African Americans for African Americans about themselves do not support these conclusions.