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Black Women, Black Love
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Published: 10/6/2020
In this analysis of social history, examine the complex lineage of America's oppression of Black companionship. According to the 2010 US census, more than seventy percent of Black women in America are unmarried. Black Women, Black Love reveals how four centuries of laws, policies, and customs have created that crisis. Dianne Stewart begins in the colonial era, when slave owners denied Blacks the right to marry, divided families, and, in many cases, raped enslaved women…

337 Pages

Publisher: Perseus Books, Basic Books, Seal Press

Release Date: October 6, 2020

This is an amazing book that chronicles the history of Black women in the United States. The author describes the lives of Black women during slave times and the consequences those times had on relationships between husbands and wives. One woman went as far as trying to kill her girl children, so they did not have to experience the degradation of living at the pleasure of the slave owner.

 

The statistical analysis is staggering in regards the percentage of married Black women compared with White or Hispanic. I am impressed with the amount of research done by the author. The writing is somewhat formal and academic, but the subject matter requires it. This is a book everyone interested in the topic.

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