Love & Marriage in Early African America
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Love & Marriage in Early African America
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"Love & Marriage in Early African America" . Ed. Frances Smith Foster. Hanover: UP of New England, 2008. xxvi+329 pp. (Northeastern Library of Black Literature.)
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Table of contents
PART ONE. IN LOVE––WITH LOVE
Lyrics––Section 1
● Anon. / What's You Lookin' at Me Fer?
● Anon. / Love Is Jes aTthing o' Fancy
● Anon / You Loves Yo' Gal?
● Anon. / Creole Candio
● Anon. / One Sweet Kiss
● Phillis’ Wheatley (1769) / On Friendship
● from Freedom's Journal (1827) / Behave yourself
● George Moses Horton (1843) / Lines to my–––
● from Provincial Freeman / Courting in Connecticut
● from the Pacific Appeal (1862) / To Annie
● Walden (1873?) / To Miss W, A. I[slay]
● Paul Laurence Dunbar (1895) / A Negro Love Song
● Paul Laurence Dunbar (1899) / Dinah Kneading Dough
● James E. McGirt (1901) / Show Your Love
● Jos D.H. Heard (1901) / The Parting Kiss
● Timothy Thomas Fortune (1905) / Jessie and I
● Samuel Alfred Beadle (1912) / Kiss Me Again
● Olive Ward Bush-Banks (1914) / Love's Lament
● Olive Ward Bush-Banks (1920) / Filled With You
Lyrics––Section 2
● Anon. / Does You Lak Strawberries?
● Anon. / W'en I Wus a "Roustabout"
● Anon. / She Hug Me
● Anon. / A Letter
● Anon. / You Nasty Dog!
● Anon. / Pretty Liddle Pink
● from Freedom's Journal (1827) / Is It So?
● from Freedom's Journal (1828) / Stanzas
● George Moses Horton (1829) / To Eliza
● Ann Plato (1841) / Forget Me Now
● George Moses Horton (1865) / Farewell to Frances
● John Willis Menard (1879) / A Love Son
● Frances E[llen] W[atkins] Harper (1893) / A Double Standard
● James Weldon Johnson (1900) / Sence You Went Away
● Olive Ward Bush-Banks (1914) / Regret
● Alice Dunbar Nelson (1917) / Violets
● Georgia Douglas Johnson (1918) / The Heart of a Woman
Fiction
● Mrs. M.B. Lambert (1882) / A Christmas Sketch
● Alice Dunbar Nelson (1895) / Violets
● Jessie Fauset (1917) / "There Was One time!"
Letters
● From Phillis Wheatley to Obour Tanner (1773)
● From Harriet to Freedom's Journal (1827)
● From Amelia to Freedom's Journal (1827)
● From Criticus to Freedom's Journal (1827)
● From Tom Little to Freedom's Journal (1827)
● From Henry H. Garnet to "Dear Friend" (1837)
● From William H. Wormley to Catto (1860)
● From Addie Brown to Rebecca Primus (1859-1867)
Autobiographical Accounts
● from Life of William Grimes (1855) / William Grimes
● from Life and adventures of James Williams (1893) / James Williams
● from Federal Writers Project (ca. 1937) / Fannie Berry
PART TWO. WHETHER TO MARRY––AND WHO?
Lyrics
● Anon. / Aurore Pradere
● Anon. / W'en I Goes to Marry
● from Freedom’s Journal (1828) / Lines, Written on hearing a beautiful Young Lady express a determination to live an Old Main
● from the Christian Recorder (1864) / A Young Lady's Soliloquy
● George Moses Horton (1865) / The Cheerless Condition of Bachelorship
● Frances E[llen] W[atkins] Harper (1867) / Report
● Frances E[llen] W[atkins] Harper (1868) / Advice to Girls
● A. I[slay] Walden (1873) / One to Love
Fiction
● from Provincial Freeman (1855) / A Woman and an Angel
● Frances E[llen] W[atkins] Harper (1859) / The Two Offers
Nonfiction
● from The Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (1817) / On Marriage
● from Freedom's Journal (1827) / A Bachelor's Thermometer
● from Freedom's Journal (1827) / The Old Maid's Diary
● from Freedom's Journal (1828) / "Sic a Wife"
● from Freedom's Journal (1828) / An Unmarried Woman
● from Freedom's Journal (1828) / A Gold Repeater
● from Freedom's Journal (1829) / Lewis White Advertises
● Ann Plato (1841) / Two School Girls
● from Provincial Freeman (1855) / A Bachelor Advertises
● from Repository of Religion and Literature (1859) / Matrimony
● from the Christian Recorder (1861) / To Avoid a Bad Husband
● from the Pacific Appeal (1864) / The Pleasures of Single Life
● from the Christian Recorder (1864) / Young Ladies of To-Day
● from the Christian Recorder (1865) / How to Make Bean Soup
● from the Christian Recorder (1876) / Yoked Unequally
● from Life and Adventures of James Williams (1893) / Bigamy
PART THREE. PROPOSALS AND VOWS
Lyrics
● Anon. / Wedding Colors
● Anon. / Slave Marriage
● A[lfred] G[ibbs] Campbell (1883) / Written in a Bride's Album
● Mary Weston Fordham (1897) / Marriage
Fiction
● from Southern Workman (1895) / Conversation
Nonfiction
● from Freedom's Journal (1828) / Miseries of an Engaged Man
● from Freedom's Journal (1828) / Miseries of an Engaged Woman
● from the Christian Recorder (1861) / Getting Married without Knowing How It Was to Be Done
● from the Christian Recorder (1876) / Marriage of Rev. John Beckett to Miss Kate Campbell
Autobiographical Accounts
● from Freedom's Journal / Thomas Tompkins
● from Life of William Grimes / William Grimes
● from Incidents in the Life / Harriet Jacobs
● Harriett McFarlin Payne, from Rawick, American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (ca. 1937) / When Two of the Slaves
● from Ophelia Settle Egypt, Unwritten History of Slavery / The War Went On
● Aunt Virginia Bell, from Rawick, American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (ca. 1937) / Iffen Any of the Slaves
● Sarah Allen, from Rawick, American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (ca. 1937) / I Had a Nice Weddin'
● Jeff Calhoun, from Rawick, American Slave: A Composite Autobiography / De Way Dey One
PART FOUR. MARRIED LIFE
Lyrics
● Anon. / Three Months Married
● Phillis Wheatley / To a Lady on the Death of Her Husband
● from Freedom's Journal (1828) / To the Bride
● George Moses Horton (1845 ) / Connubial Felicity
● Frances Ellen Watkins [Harper] (1857) / The Fugitive’s Wife
● from the Christian Recorder / The Old Couple
● John Menard Willis (1879) / The Wife's Invocation
● from the Christian Recorder (1879) / To Elder T. Wellington Henders
● Robert C.O. Benjamin (1883) / Dearest
● A[lfred] G[ibbs] Campbell (1883) / To My Absent Wife
● Frances E[llen] W[atkins] Harper (1886) / To Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Johnson
Fiction
● from Provincial Freeman (1855) / Dialogue between a Newly Married Couple
● from Provincial Freeman (1855 ) / Mr. Pepper's Wife
● from the Anglo-African magazine (1859) / Patrick Brown's First Love
● from the Christian Recorder (1869) / Anecdotal: An Old and True Friend
● Thomas Detter (1871) / Octoroon Slave of Cuba
● Charles W. Chesnutt (1899) / The Wife of His Youth
● Pauline E. Hopkins (1901) / Bro'r Abr'm Jimson's Wedding
Nonfiction
● from Colored American (1837) / Whisper to a Wife
● from Colored American (1837) / The Intemperate Husband
● from Pacific Appeal (1862) / Tell Your Wife
● from the Christian Recorder (1864) / A Chapter for Young Husbands
● from the Christian Recorder (1876) / A Tin Wedding
● from the Christian Recorder (1880) / A Bereaved Wife
Letters
● From Jane Stephens to Freedom's Journal (1827)
● From James Stephens to Freedom's Journal (1827)
● From George Pleasant to Agnes Hobbs (1833)
● From Marie Perkins to husband (1852)
● From Abream Scriven to wife (1858)
● From Harriet Newby to Dangerfield Newby (1859)
● From Harriet Newby to Dangerfield Newby (1859)
● From Ann to Husband (1864)
Autobiographical Accounts
● from Life and religious experience of Jarena Lee (1836) / Jarena Lee
● from Narrative of Lunsford Lane (1848) / Lunsford Lane
● from The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb (1849) / Henry Bibb
● from Father Henson's story of his own life (1858) / Josiah Henson
● from A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis (1859) / Noah Davis
● from The Narrative of the Life of J.D. Gren (1864) / J.D. Green
● from Behind the Scenes (1868) / Elizabeth Keckley
PART FIVE. FAMILY TREES ROOTED––IN LOVE
Lyrics
● Ann Plato (1841) / Daughter's Inquiry
● Joseph Cephas Colly (1853) / Our family Tree
● from Provincial Freeman (1855) / My Child
● from Life of William Grives (1855) / Old Grimes' Son
● from the Christian Recorder (1872) / The Home for Me
● Fenton Johnson / The Lonely Mother
Fiction
● Mrs. Lucie S. Day (1853) / Charles and Clara Hayes
● Mrs. Sarah Douglas (1859) / Dialogue Between a Mother and Her Children on the Precious Stones
● Gertrude D[orsey] Browne (1907) / The Voice of the Rich Pudding
Letters
● From John H. Rapier to His Son John (1857)
● From Parker Smith to "My dear Sir" (1861)
● From Rebecca Primus to Parents and Sister (1976)
● From Dave Waldro to Cousin (1867)
● from the Christian Recorder (1864-1893) / Information Wanted
● from the Christian Recorder, January 6, 1893 (1893) / Information Wanted
Nonfiction
● from Colored American (1837) / The Dying Bed of a Mother
● from the Christian Recorder (1864) / The Use of Grandmothers
● from the Christian Recorder / Aunt Jennie the Old Maid
Autobiographical Accounts
● from Autobiography of a fugitive negro (1855) / Samuel Ringgold Ward
● from Life of William Grimes (1855) / Williams Grimes
● from Narrative of a Refugee Slave (1857) / Thomas Jones
● from Life and Adventures of James Williams (1893) / James Williams
● Rosetta Douglass Sprague (1900) / My Mother as I Recall Her
● W.E.B. DuBois (1901) / Of the Passing of the First-Born
● Suggestions for Further Reading
ILLUSTRATIONS
● A. J. R Connor (from Anglo-African Magazine) / My Cherished Hope, My Fondest Dream
● Anon. / De Fox and de Hare
● from The Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church / Special Advices
● from the National Archives / Marriage License
● from Lippincott’s Magazine / Oh, Su-Zann!
● Anon. / Family photograph
Lyrics––Section 1
● Anon. / What's You Lookin' at Me Fer?
● Anon. / Love Is Jes aTthing o' Fancy
● Anon / You Loves Yo' Gal?
● Anon. / Creole Candio
● Anon. / One Sweet Kiss
● Phillis’ Wheatley (1769) / On Friendship
● from Freedom's Journal (1827) / Behave yourself
● George Moses Horton (1843) / Lines to my–––
● from Provincial Freeman / Courting in Connecticut
● from the Pacific Appeal (1862) / To Annie
● Walden (1873?) / To Miss W, A. I[slay]
● Paul Laurence Dunbar (1895) / A Negro Love Song
● Paul Laurence Dunbar (1899) / Dinah Kneading Dough
● James E. McGirt (1901) / Show Your Love
● Jos D.H. Heard (1901) / The Parting Kiss
● Timothy Thomas Fortune (1905) / Jessie and I
● Samuel Alfred Beadle (1912) / Kiss Me Again
● Olive Ward Bush-Banks (1914) / Love's Lament
● Olive Ward Bush-Banks (1920) / Filled With You
Lyrics––Section 2
● Anon. / Does You Lak Strawberries?
● Anon. / W'en I Wus a "Roustabout"
● Anon. / She Hug Me
● Anon. / A Letter
● Anon. / You Nasty Dog!
● Anon. / Pretty Liddle Pink
● from Freedom's Journal (1827) / Is It So?
● from Freedom's Journal (1828) / Stanzas
● George Moses Horton (1829) / To Eliza
● Ann Plato (1841) / Forget Me Now
● George Moses Horton (1865) / Farewell to Frances
● John Willis Menard (1879) / A Love Son
● Frances E[llen] W[atkins] Harper (1893) / A Double Standard
● James Weldon Johnson (1900) / Sence You Went Away
● Olive Ward Bush-Banks (1914) / Regret
● Alice Dunbar Nelson (1917) / Violets
● Georgia Douglas Johnson (1918) / The Heart of a Woman
Fiction
● Mrs. M.B. Lambert (1882) / A Christmas Sketch
● Alice Dunbar Nelson (1895) / Violets
● Jessie Fauset (1917) / "There Was One time!"
Letters
● From Phillis Wheatley to Obour Tanner (1773)
● From Harriet to Freedom's Journal (1827)
● From Amelia to Freedom's Journal (1827)
● From Criticus to Freedom's Journal (1827)
● From Tom Little to Freedom's Journal (1827)
● From Henry H. Garnet to "Dear Friend" (1837)
● From William H. Wormley to Catto (1860)
● From Addie Brown to Rebecca Primus (1859-1867)
Autobiographical Accounts
● from Life of William Grimes (1855) / William Grimes
● from Life and adventures of James Williams (1893) / James Williams
● from Federal Writers Project (ca. 1937) / Fannie Berry
PART TWO. WHETHER TO MARRY––AND WHO?
Lyrics
● Anon. / Aurore Pradere
● Anon. / W'en I Goes to Marry
● from Freedom’s Journal (1828) / Lines, Written on hearing a beautiful Young Lady express a determination to live an Old Main
● from the Christian Recorder (1864) / A Young Lady's Soliloquy
● George Moses Horton (1865) / The Cheerless Condition of Bachelorship
● Frances E[llen] W[atkins] Harper (1867) / Report
● Frances E[llen] W[atkins] Harper (1868) / Advice to Girls
● A. I[slay] Walden (1873) / One to Love
Fiction
● from Provincial Freeman (1855) / A Woman and an Angel
● Frances E[llen] W[atkins] Harper (1859) / The Two Offers
Nonfiction
● from The Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (1817) / On Marriage
● from Freedom's Journal (1827) / A Bachelor's Thermometer
● from Freedom's Journal (1827) / The Old Maid's Diary
● from Freedom's Journal (1828) / "Sic a Wife"
● from Freedom's Journal (1828) / An Unmarried Woman
● from Freedom's Journal (1828) / A Gold Repeater
● from Freedom's Journal (1829) / Lewis White Advertises
● Ann Plato (1841) / Two School Girls
● from Provincial Freeman (1855) / A Bachelor Advertises
● from Repository of Religion and Literature (1859) / Matrimony
● from the Christian Recorder (1861) / To Avoid a Bad Husband
● from the Pacific Appeal (1864) / The Pleasures of Single Life
● from the Christian Recorder (1864) / Young Ladies of To-Day
● from the Christian Recorder (1865) / How to Make Bean Soup
● from the Christian Recorder (1876) / Yoked Unequally
● from Life and Adventures of James Williams (1893) / Bigamy
PART THREE. PROPOSALS AND VOWS
Lyrics
● Anon. / Wedding Colors
● Anon. / Slave Marriage
● A[lfred] G[ibbs] Campbell (1883) / Written in a Bride's Album
● Mary Weston Fordham (1897) / Marriage
Fiction
● from Southern Workman (1895) / Conversation
Nonfiction
● from Freedom's Journal (1828) / Miseries of an Engaged Man
● from Freedom's Journal (1828) / Miseries of an Engaged Woman
● from the Christian Recorder (1861) / Getting Married without Knowing How It Was to Be Done
● from the Christian Recorder (1876) / Marriage of Rev. John Beckett to Miss Kate Campbell
Autobiographical Accounts
● from Freedom's Journal / Thomas Tompkins
● from Life of William Grimes / William Grimes
● from Incidents in the Life / Harriet Jacobs
● Harriett McFarlin Payne, from Rawick, American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (ca. 1937) / When Two of the Slaves
● from Ophelia Settle Egypt, Unwritten History of Slavery / The War Went On
● Aunt Virginia Bell, from Rawick, American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (ca. 1937) / Iffen Any of the Slaves
● Sarah Allen, from Rawick, American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (ca. 1937) / I Had a Nice Weddin'
● Jeff Calhoun, from Rawick, American Slave: A Composite Autobiography / De Way Dey One
PART FOUR. MARRIED LIFE
Lyrics
● Anon. / Three Months Married
● Phillis Wheatley / To a Lady on the Death of Her Husband
● from Freedom's Journal (1828) / To the Bride
● George Moses Horton (1845 ) / Connubial Felicity
● Frances Ellen Watkins [Harper] (1857) / The Fugitive’s Wife
● from the Christian Recorder / The Old Couple
● John Menard Willis (1879) / The Wife's Invocation
● from the Christian Recorder (1879) / To Elder T. Wellington Henders
● Robert C.O. Benjamin (1883) / Dearest
● A[lfred] G[ibbs] Campbell (1883) / To My Absent Wife
● Frances E[llen] W[atkins] Harper (1886) / To Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Johnson
Fiction
● from Provincial Freeman (1855) / Dialogue between a Newly Married Couple
● from Provincial Freeman (1855 ) / Mr. Pepper's Wife
● from the Anglo-African magazine (1859) / Patrick Brown's First Love
● from the Christian Recorder (1869) / Anecdotal: An Old and True Friend
● Thomas Detter (1871) / Octoroon Slave of Cuba
● Charles W. Chesnutt (1899) / The Wife of His Youth
● Pauline E. Hopkins (1901) / Bro'r Abr'm Jimson's Wedding
Nonfiction
● from Colored American (1837) / Whisper to a Wife
● from Colored American (1837) / The Intemperate Husband
● from Pacific Appeal (1862) / Tell Your Wife
● from the Christian Recorder (1864) / A Chapter for Young Husbands
● from the Christian Recorder (1876) / A Tin Wedding
● from the Christian Recorder (1880) / A Bereaved Wife
Letters
● From Jane Stephens to Freedom's Journal (1827)
● From James Stephens to Freedom's Journal (1827)
● From George Pleasant to Agnes Hobbs (1833)
● From Marie Perkins to husband (1852)
● From Abream Scriven to wife (1858)
● From Harriet Newby to Dangerfield Newby (1859)
● From Harriet Newby to Dangerfield Newby (1859)
● From Ann to Husband (1864)
Autobiographical Accounts
● from Life and religious experience of Jarena Lee (1836) / Jarena Lee
● from Narrative of Lunsford Lane (1848) / Lunsford Lane
● from The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb (1849) / Henry Bibb
● from Father Henson's story of his own life (1858) / Josiah Henson
● from A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis (1859) / Noah Davis
● from The Narrative of the Life of J.D. Gren (1864) / J.D. Green
● from Behind the Scenes (1868) / Elizabeth Keckley
PART FIVE. FAMILY TREES ROOTED––IN LOVE
Lyrics
● Ann Plato (1841) / Daughter's Inquiry
● Joseph Cephas Colly (1853) / Our family Tree
● from Provincial Freeman (1855) / My Child
● from Life of William Grives (1855) / Old Grimes' Son
● from the Christian Recorder (1872) / The Home for Me
● Fenton Johnson / The Lonely Mother
Fiction
● Mrs. Lucie S. Day (1853) / Charles and Clara Hayes
● Mrs. Sarah Douglas (1859) / Dialogue Between a Mother and Her Children on the Precious Stones
● Gertrude D[orsey] Browne (1907) / The Voice of the Rich Pudding
Letters
● From John H. Rapier to His Son John (1857)
● From Parker Smith to "My dear Sir" (1861)
● From Rebecca Primus to Parents and Sister (1976)
● From Dave Waldro to Cousin (1867)
● from the Christian Recorder (1864-1893) / Information Wanted
● from the Christian Recorder, January 6, 1893 (1893) / Information Wanted
Nonfiction
● from Colored American (1837) / The Dying Bed of a Mother
● from the Christian Recorder (1864) / The Use of Grandmothers
● from the Christian Recorder / Aunt Jennie the Old Maid
Autobiographical Accounts
● from Autobiography of a fugitive negro (1855) / Samuel Ringgold Ward
● from Life of William Grimes (1855) / Williams Grimes
● from Narrative of a Refugee Slave (1857) / Thomas Jones
● from Life and Adventures of James Williams (1893) / James Williams
● Rosetta Douglass Sprague (1900) / My Mother as I Recall Her
● W.E.B. DuBois (1901) / Of the Passing of the First-Born
● Suggestions for Further Reading
ILLUSTRATIONS
● A. J. R Connor (from Anglo-African Magazine) / My Cherished Hope, My Fondest Dream
● Anon. / De Fox and de Hare
● from The Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church / Special Advices
● from the National Archives / Marriage License
● from Lippincott’s Magazine / Oh, Su-Zann!
● Anon. / Family photograph
Item Number
A0412