Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century - N.A. - (Atlanta, GA)
The Baton Foundation, Inc., in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, will host a lecture and book signing about the history of Black marriage in the nineteenth century. This program is free and open to the public. Reserve seats here. About the Program Americans have long viewed marriage between a White man and a White woman as a sacred union. But marriages between Blacks 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. Though their unions were not legally recognized, slaves commonly married, fully aware that their marital bonds would be sustained or nullified according to the whims of white masters. Read more here.
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