The Legacy of Slave Marriage in the United States

What is it about?

Uses various archival and published primary sources to examine how former slave owners anecdotally defended the institution of slavery, arguing that "slave weddings" were a central component of slavery's benign existence in the US South

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Why is it important?

Adding to the subject of memory studies and slavery in the United States, I analyze how memories of specific institutions, specifically marriage, formed a bedrock of white southerners' apologetics in the post-civil war era.