Description: The Auburn Avenue Research Library, in partnership with the Baton Foundation, Inc., will host Dr. Tera W. Hunter who will discuss her publication, Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century. Bound in Wedlock is the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century. Uncovering the experiences of African American spouses in plantation records, legal and court documents, and pension files, Tera W. Hunter reveals the myriad ways couples adopted, adapted, revised, and rejected white Christian ideas of marriage. Setting their own standards for conjugal relationships, enslaved husbands and wives were creative and, of necessity, practical in starting and supporting families under conditions of uncertainty and cruelty. Tera W. Hunter is the Edwards Professor of American History and Professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University. Professor Hunter attended Duke University where she graduated with Distinction in History. She received a M.Phil. in history from Yale University and a Ph.D. from Yale. She has received numerous fellowships and grants including the National Humanities Center Fellowship and a Mary I. Bunting Institute fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University .

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