Jumping over a broomstick was a ceremony celebrating

A) a fugitive slave arriving in a free state.
B) a slave marriage.
C) the birth of a slave baby.
D) surviving the Middle Passage.
E) a slave's promotion from field hand to domestic servant.

Jumping Over A Broomstick

A traditional wedding ceremony or ritual symbolizing the sweeping away of the old and welcoming the new; often associated with African American and Celtic ceremonies.

Slave Marriage

Informal unions between enslaved individuals that were not legally recognized but held significant personal and communal value among enslaved communities in the United States.

Middle Passage

The hellish and often deadly middle leg of the transatlantic “Triangular Trade” inwhich European ships carried manufactured goods to Africa, then transported enslaved Africans tothe Americas and the Caribbean, and finally conveyed American agricultural products back toEurope; from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century, some 12 million Africans weretransported via the Middle Passage, unknown millions more dying en route.