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



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Autore: Foster Frances Smith Visualizza persona
Titolo: 'Til death or distance do us part : love and marriage in African America / / Frances Smith Foster Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 198 p.)
Disciplina: 305.896073
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: United States Social conditions To 1865
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Til death or distance do us part  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-988697-0
1-282-38389-2
9786612383892
0-19-971651-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910820177303321
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