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Author: Frances Smith Foster Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019971651X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 219
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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.
Author: Frances Smith Foster Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019971651X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 219
Book Description
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.
Author: Tera W. Hunter Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674979249 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 417
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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 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 traces back to centuries of slavery, when the overwhelming majority of black married couples were bound in servitude as well as wedlock, but it does not end there. Bound in Wedlock is the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century. Drawing from plantation records, legal documents, and personal family papers, it reveals the many creative ways enslaved couples found to upend white Christian ideas of marriage. “A remarkable book... Hunter has harvested stories of human resilience from the cruelest of soils... An impeccably crafted testament to the African-Americans whose ingenuity, steadfast love and hard-nosed determination protected black family life under the most trying of circumstances.” —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
Author: Tera W. Hunter Publisher: Belknap Press ISBN: 0674237455 Category : African Americans Languages : en Pages : 417
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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.--
Author: C. Dale Baldwin Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency ISBN: 1948260794 Category : Languages : en Pages : 290
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Resheda-Rae Alexandria Mona and Clyde Ramon Muscat are newlyweds living a very successful, lavish, and lucrative lifestyle in New York City. They love the lifestyle that New York offers, as the couple enjoys the high life. Working hard and playing hard, their marriage is exciting and new. They say their vows in Manhattan and honeymoon in Hawaii. They purchase a home and open a bar in the City that they name Tempo NYC! And they also vacation in the Hamptons in the summer with friends. Clyde is a successful and esteemed banker who relishes spending and investing his money. He heads one of Manhattan’s largest financial institutions, and as president of operations he makes the decisions. Well-salaried Clyde has always been enamored with money; he loves money so much that he even wallpapers his office with it. So when a big offer comes his way for an easy payday, he cannot miss out on a chance to have more. Unbeknownst to Clyde, Resheda-Rae is a CIA special agent. She covers her career as a special agent by working as a broker of her own real estate firm and a professional home decorator. She cannot disclose her status to Clyde for his safety. Their love is new and affectionate as they live life fast and free … until he comes under her scope. Then she must deal with the pain of bringing him to justice and possibly losing the love of her life. Their marriage will indeed last Til Death Do Us Part.
Author: Al Lacy Publisher: Multnomah ISBN: 0307874915 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 309
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As the civil war begins, the wealthy Ruffin family is torn by forces threatening their way of life. Experience the heartache and dramatic victory of two couples battling jealousy and racial hatred.
Author: Reyna Grande Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451661800 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 384
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In this inspirational and unflinchingly honest memoir, acclaimed author Reyna Grande describes her childhood torn between the United States and Mexico, and shines a light on the experiences, fears, and hopes of those who choose to make the harrowing journey across the border. Reyna Grande vividly brings to life her tumultuous early years in this “compelling...unvarnished, resonant” (BookPage) story of a childhood spent torn between two parents and two countries. As her parents make the dangerous trek across the Mexican border to “El Otro Lado” (The Other Side) in pursuit of the American dream, Reyna and her siblings are forced into the already overburdened household of their stern grandmother. When their mother at last returns, Reyna prepares for her own journey to “El Otro Lado” to live with the man who has haunted her imagination for years, her long-absent father. Funny, heartbreaking, and lyrical, The Distance Between Us poignantly captures the confusion and contradictions of childhood, reminding us that the joys and sorrows we experience are imprinted on the heart forever, calling out to us of those places we first called home. Also available in Spanish as La distancia entre nosotros.
Author: Sara Fraser Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd ISBN: 1780103921 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 292
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The new ‘Constable Thomas Potts’ historical mystery. Matrimony. An Officer of the Honourable East India Company is greatly desirous of finding a soul-mate to share his life and fortune. Lonely spinster Phoebe Creswell responds to an advertisement in the Worcester Herald, but are the outwardly charming Major Christophe de Langlois and his companion, the Reverend Geraint Winward, really who and what they seem? Distracted by his own new bride and a spate of dog thefts, will Constable Thomas Potts be able to uncover the truth about the Rev Winward and Major de Langlois in time to save Phoebe from a gruesome fate?
Author: Amanda Quick Publisher: Berkley ISBN: 039917446X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 354
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Operating an exclusive matchmaking service for the nobility in Victorian London, Calista Langley is stalked by a dangerously obsessed individual and turns for help to a reclusive author who is fighting mysterious demons from his past.
Author: Sonya L. Williams Publisher: Xulon Press ISBN: 1600349285 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 152
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Weddings are often the happiest day of a couple's life. At least for the bride it is. It's all about her. The bride has the chance to get all dolled up, be waited on hand and foot, then walk down the aisle looking like the beautiful princess that her daddy always told her she was. Now the bride being the main focus of attention is no problem to me at all. It's when we leave the wedding and go into marriage still thinking "It's still all about me." In wedding vows we promise to stay together "Til death do us part" but as for a relationship with God, until death, we are apart. Sin separates us from God. I've finally learned that to live in Christ we must die to ourselves. In marriage, we must die to many of our own desires and live for our spouses. When we live for God, He will show us how to live for our spouses. When we live selfishly we will always be craving for more but when we live selflessly, God will see to it that our needs are always supplied and our desires are satisfied. God will always see to it that you reap what you sow. In sharing some of my own experiences and what I've learned, I pray that I can sow seeds of hope into the lives of others. This book is to show my journey towards building a relationship with God. As you will see, I too have lived in sin. We were all born into sin. Fortunately, God gives us free will to choose to continue living in sin or die to sin and receive new life in Him.
Author: Frances Smith Foster
Author: Frances Smith Foster
Author: Tera W. Hunter
Author: Tera W. Hunter
Author: C. Dale Baldwin
Author: Al Lacy
Author: Darrell Evers
Author: Reyna Grande
Author: Sara Fraser
Author: Amanda Quick
Author: Sonya L. Williams