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'Til death or distance do us part : love and marriage in African America / Frances Smith Foster.

Author: Foster, Frances Smith.

Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Descriptionxviii, 198 p. ; 22 cm.

Note:Adam and Eve, Antoney and Isabella -- Terms of endearment -- Practical thoughts, divine mandates, and the Afro-Protestant Press -- Rights and rituals -- Myths, memory, and self-realization -- Getting stories straight, keeping them real -- Alchemy of personal politics -- Me, Mende, and Sankofa : an epilogue.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-179) and index.



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Foster, Frances Smith.
Title:
Until death or distance do us part
Subject:
African Americans -- Marriage -- History.
African Americans -- Marriage customs and rites -- History.
Enslaved persons -- Family relationships -- United States -- History.
Marriage customs and rites -- United States.
Marriage -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865.