Marriage G Quotes

“As marriage became "proof" of black respectability, this induced many freedmen and women to marry, but it also encouraged the black community to exert pressure on those who resisted..."The colored people of this place are trying to make their colored brethren pay some respect to themselves and the laws of the country...and stop the slave style of living together without being married.”
― Marcia A. Zug, You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love