Professor Frances Smith Foster, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women’s Studies, will read from her new book, Till Death or Distance Do Us Part: Love and Marriage in African America (Oxford University Press, 2010) at 6:00 PM on Monday, March 22nd. the reading will take place at the Center for Ethics, Room 102 and will be followed by a signing.
The book, which is based on evidence found in letters, poems, sermons, essays, and other documents, examines and challenges existing theories about slave marriages and the effect that slave marriages have had on modern African American unions. The book is Professor Foster’s second contribution to the Center for the Study of Law and Religion’s project, “Sex, Marriage, and Family & the Religions of the Book,” the first being Love and Marriage in Early African America (Northeastern University Press, 2007).
More information about this event can be obtained by calling 404-727-6754.
