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'Til Death Or Distance Do Us Part: Love and Marriage in African America

By (author) Frances Smith Foster

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Conventional wisdom tells us that marriage was illegal for African Americans during the antebellum era, and that if people married at all, their vows were tenuous ones: ""until death or distance do us part."" It is an impression that imbues beliefs about black families to this day. But it's a perception primarily based on documents produced by abolitionists, the state, or other partisans. It doesn't tell the whole story. Drawing on a trove of less well-known sources including family histories, folk stories, memoirs, sermons, and especially the fascinating writings from the Afro-Protestant Press,'Til Death or Distance Do Us Part offers a radically different perspective on antebellum love and family life. Frances Smith Foster applies the knowledge she's developed over a lifetime of reading and thinking. Advocating both the potency of skepticism and the importance of story-telling, her book shows the way toward a more genuine, more affirmative understanding of African American romance, both then and now.

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Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc
Published date | 2 Oct 2014
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 220
Dimensions | 137 x 213 x 15mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 267g
ISBN | 978-0-1993-8970-4
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