Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

by Tera W. Hunter

Book Overview

Winner of the Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History
Winner of the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize
Winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize
Winner of the Mary Nickliss Prize
Winner of the Willie Lee Rose Prize

Americans have long viewed marriage between a white man and a white woman as a sacred union. But marriages between African Americans have seldom been treated with the same reverence. This discriminatory legacy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674237455
• ISBN13: 9780674237452
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"