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- An excellent body of scholarship on slavery, by traditional Americanist historians who do not utilize a history-of-emotions approach, has grappled with the emotion of love in the context of enslaved communities. 10 Rebecca Fraser, in the landmark Courtship and Love amongst the Enslaved in North Carolina, concluded on the powerful note that enslaved people had “loved and … had been loved” with a depth of feeling that provided them with strength when the will to continue was lost. 11 Everlasting,...
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Sep 20, 2019 · The chronicle of African American marriage under slavery is one of twists and turns—of intimate bonds being formed, sustained, broken and repeatedly re-created under the strains of an...
Aug 11, 2023 · In effect, this body of scholarship arrives largely at the consensus that love as experienced by Black enslaved communities of the South – despite existing within the tight confines of the power and domination of slavery – was ultimately a romantic love, characterized by deep feeling, passion, and eternal power.
Feb 13, 2017 · After all, for the millions of men, women and children who endured atrocities and injustices under the institution of slavery, the only bond that offered any hope of liberation – if not of the body, then of the soul – was the bond of love.
Initially, enslaved people formed relationships according to the customs of West Africa. [4] There was an expectation of love, affection, and loyalty. [5] "Marriage" between enslaved people reflected a chosen emotional bond and a committed marital relationship.
Furthermore, several scholars have noted that enslaved African Americans embraced “fictive kin,” or members that were not related by blood or marriage but were nonetheless embedded within family structures. Friends and loved ones often performed the roles of absent parents, siblings, and other family members. 7
In northern states such as New York, Pennsylvania, or Massachusetts, where slavery had ended by 1830, free African Americans could marry, but in the slave states of the South, many enslaved people entered into relationships that they treated like marriage; they considered themselves husbands and wives even though they knew that their unions ...
May 1, 2017 · 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. Bound in Wedlock is the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century.
