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Courtship and Love among the Enslaved in North Carolina. By Rebecca J. Fraser. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. x, 137 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-1-934110-07-2.)
Courtship and Love among the Enslaved in North Carolina is a slim volume that traces how enslaved people negotiated the intimate relations of courtship and marriage within the confines of the nineteenth-century slave-labor system. Rebecca J. Fraser combines Works Progress Administration narratives, family papers, ex-slave narratives, and folklore with integrated historiography to provide an accessible analysis of the role of courtship in the daily contestations and experiences of slavery. . . .
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