Comedy Drama. Director Salim Akil. Elizabeth Hunter screenplay Arlene Gibbs screenplay. Top credits Director Salim Akil. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Jumping the Broom. Promo Jumping The Broom. Photos Top cast Edit. Angela Bassett Mrs. Watson as Mrs. Loretta Devine Mrs. Taylor as Mrs. Meagan Good Blythe as Blythe. Tasha Smith Shonda as Shonda. Jumping the broom is a time-honored wedding tradition in which the bride and groom jump over a broom during the ceremony.
The act symbolizes a new beginning and a sweeping away of the past, and can also signify the joining of two families or offer a respectful nod to family ancestors. For all of these reasons, jumping the broom is an increasingly popular part of many modern wedding ceremonies [source: African American Roots, Inc.
Today's wedding brooms, however, are a far cry from those first used in jumping the broom ceremonies. They're still made with a wooden handle and natural bristles, but they're kept as treasured keepsakes and probably never actually used to sweep the floor. Some brides prefer to create their own brooms, while others purchase ornately decorated brooms ready-made. Far from ordinary, these brooms are outfitted beautifully with silk ribbons, fresh or silk flowers, bows, beads and more.
During the ceremony, broom jumping can be paired with a prayer, song, poem or simple explanation of the tradition. The passage's sentiment warns others to respect the couple's union and encourages the couple to cherish each other [source: Cole]. Today, many brides attach the verse to their wedding brooms. The broom can even be used to include guests in the ceremony: A couple can have guests write their names on pieces of decorative paper attached to ribbons, and then the ribbons are tied to the broom before it is jumped.
This symbolizes that the guests -- and their associated well wishes -- go into the marriage with the couple. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile.
Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. Many cultures have rituals that are integrated into wedding ceremonies to celebrate the heritage and pass down customs to another generation.
Jumping the broom is a Black wedding tradition steeped in history. Jumping the broom is a traditional act performed at some Black weddings. After vows are exchanged, the newlyweds hold hands and jump over a broom to seal the union. The broom has different meanings in several cultures. In Pagan ceremonies, it is said that the broom handle represents the male phallus and the bristles represent female energy.
Learn more about the tradition and how it is integrated into weddings with help from expert Nicole Harris. Likely, the tradition of jumping the broom traveled from Britain to the colonies. Pre-Christian Roma and Celtic communities in the British Isles were known for jumping the broom to seal their wedding vows.
Rural Anglo-Saxons embraced the practice as well. The Welsh, in particular, sustained the ritual , at least until the s, and carried the tradition to the American South, where many of them settled, especially during the 19th century. Once in the United States, white slave owners seemingly imposed the foreign custom upon couples who desired a symbolic ritual, according to Bosses and Broomsticks: Ritual and Authority in Antebellum Slave Weddings.
Some slaveholders, in fact, unceremoniously introduced what they viewed as an old pagan custom to their enslaved laborers with more than a hint of paternalism and derision. While it is celebrated today, the broomstick may have served to remind enslaved couples that their marriages were perpetually vulnerable to dissolution at the whims of their owners. Some enslaved couples even adapted their wedding vows to accommodate their precarious condition, vowing to remain married until "death or distance " would part them.
However, other recollections of slave weddings suggest their communities often did exhibit control and agency over their varied wedding ceremonies, including those involving the broomstick ritual.
The social and physical landscape of labor among enslaved communities might have played a role in such decisions because, as one enslaved man summed up , per the book Father James Page: An Enslaved Preacher's Climb to Freedom , field hands were willing to jump the broom, but when house servants married, they wanted a white preacher. Enslaved domestic laborers had greater proximity culturally and even genetically to white slaveholders than their counterparts who worked in the fields.
They had more access to the customs and resources of white slaveholders than field laborers, and would have been aware of the social stigma matrimonial broomsticks elicited among white Christians in slaveholding circles who regarded it as an invalid pagan custom.
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