ISBN:
9780674045712
Language:
English
Pages:
404 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme, Fotografien, 1 genealogische Tafel
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Hunter, Tera W. Bound in wedlock
DDC:
390/.25097309034
Keywords:
Geschichte 1800-1899
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African Americans Marriage customs and rites 19th century
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African Americans Social life and customs 19th century
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Slaves Social conditions 19th century
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Slaves Social life and customs 19th century
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Free African Americans Social life and customs 19th century
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Marriage History 19th century
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Sklave
;
Eherecht
;
Schwarze
;
Amerika
;
Amerika
;
Schwarze
;
Sklave
;
Eherecht
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Geschichte 1800-1899
Abstract:
Tera W. Hunter offers the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century and into the Jim Crow era. She reveals the practical ways couples adopted, adapted, or rejected White Christian ideas of marriage, creatively setting their own standards for conjugal relationships under conditions of uncertainty and cruelty....
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