'Til death or distance do us part : love and marriage in African America / / Frances Smith Foster
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| Autore: |
Foster Frances Smith
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| Titolo: |
'Til death or distance do us part : love and marriage in African America / / Frances Smith Foster
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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