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Identifier
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TiffanyChang-2
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Title
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"The Broomstick Wedding" and "The Christian Wedding"
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Description
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These two magazine illustrations demonstrate how marriage rituals between enslaved and formerly enslaved Black Americans changed before and after Emancipation to better conform to Christian and legally recognized marriage norms.
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Creator
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Harper's Weekly Magazine
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Date Created
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1897 and 1866, respectively.
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Publisher
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Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library/University of Georgia Libraries, in Brenda Stevenson's "'Us never had no big funerals or weddin's on de place': Ritualizing Black Marriage in the Wake of Freedom"
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Bibliographic Citation
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“The Broomstick Wedding.” From Mary Ashton Wright Livermore, The Story of My Life; or, The Sunshine and Shadow of Seventy Years (Hartford, Conn.: A. D. Worthington, 1897), p. 257. Courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library/University of Georgia Libraries; “Marriage of a Colored Soldier.” From Harper’s Weekly, June 30, 1866.
