Til Death Or Distance Do Us Part: Love And Marriage In African America by Frances Smith Foster

Til Death Or Distance Do Us Part: Love And Marriage In African America

Frances Smith Foster

198 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction informative medium-paced

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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 ...

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