'Til Death Or Distance Do Us Part: Love and Marriage in African America 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.Conventional wisdom tells us that marriage was illegal fo
| TITLE | : | 'Til Death Or Distance Do Us Part: Love and Marriage in African America |
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| RATING | : | 4.73 (130 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0199389705 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| PAGES | : | 220 Pages |
| PUBLISH | : | 2014-08-01 |
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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
EDITORIAL :
From Publishers Weekly Faced with a plethora of stories about promiscuous coupling and fatherless families, instability, and group dysfunction, Foster (Written by Herself) illuminates the African-American historical experience of love and marriage through the stories that antebellum African Americans told among themselves. She relies particularly on the records of the 18th century Free African Union Societies of Newport, R.I., and Philadelphia and 19th-century slave narratives along with contemporaneous novels and poems. The most groundbreaking content stems from the Afro-Protestant press periodicals, which are treasure troves of ideas, experiences, and ideals. She has more on her mind than emending the historical record; after leaving the antebellum period, where she amply demonstrates that African-American marriage was frequent, that family ties were strong, she embarks on digre
REVIEW :
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