| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

Chains of Love: Slave Couples in Antebellum South Carolina. By Emily West. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. xii, 184 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-252-02903-8.)

In Chains of Love Emily West examines the strength of the relationships between enslaved men and women, arguing that most enslaved people aspired to meaningful marital bonds that served a variety of purposes and that these ties were maintained even among those who formed cross-plantation or "broad" marriages. West suggests that the desire of enslaved people to choose their own mates and maintain ties that were not supported by slave owners and the plantation system provides strong evidence of spousal cooperation, the flexibility of family networks, and the resilience of enslaved people. Further, she sees the vigorous familial bonds of enslaved people as a mode of resistance that enabled slave couples to maintain a social space between themselves and their owners.

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