Love and Marriage in Early African America 

This volume brings together a remarkable range of folk sayings, songs, poems, letters, lectures, sermons, short stories, memoirs, and autobiographies that spans more than 100 years. This collection contradicts or nuances established notions that slavery fractured families, devalued sexual morality, distorted gender roles, and set in motion forces that now produce dismal and dangerous domestic situations. Love and Marriage in Early African America also changes our ideas about the relationship between religion and politics in early African America by featuring texts from the Afro-Protestant press. (Sex, Marriage, and Family Project)

About the Editor: Frances Smith Foster

FRANCES SMITH FOSTER is Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at Emory University. Her specialties include African American family life, and American and African American literature.  

Selected Publications

• Love and Marriage in Early African America, Northeastern University Press, 2007 
• "Q & A with the Experts: Frances Smith Foster"
• "Reconstructing Marriage in Nineteenth-Century African America," March 28, 2003
• The Family in Africa and the African Diaspora: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Imprenta Kadmos, 2004