Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
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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
--Wall Street Journal "In this brilliantly researched book, Hunter examines the experiences of slave marriages as well as the marriages of free blacks."
--Vibe "A groundbreaking history... Illuminates the complex and flexible character of black intimacy and kinship and the precariousness of marriage in the context of racial and economic inequality. It is a brilliant book."
--Saidiya Hartman, author of Lose Your Mother