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Vanessa M. Holden

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  • Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

    During and after slavery, some whites considered legal marriage too sacred an institution to be offered to black Americans.
    by Vanessa M. Holden via Black Perspectives on September 19, 2018

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