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What does jumping the broom mean?

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What does jumping the broom mean?

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Jumping over the broom symbolized various things depending on the culture. Among Southern Africans, whom were largely not a part of the Atlantic slave trade, it represented the wife’s commitment or willingness to clean the courtyard of the new home she had joined In England, jumping over the broom (or sometimes walking over a broom), became nominally synonymous (ie. “Married over the besom”) with irregular or non-church unions. But in the American south, the custom determined who ran the household. Whoever jumped highest over the broom was the decision maker of the household (usually the man). The jumping of the broom does not constitute taking a “leap of faith” as the practice of jumping the broom pre-dates the phrase coined by Søren Aabye Kierkegaard by one hundred years if not more. After the end of American slavery, jumping the broom was seldom practiced. It was not necessary once African-Americans could have European-style marriages with rings and other identifiers. Jumping the br

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