Novel bondage : slavery, marriage, and freedom in nineteenth-century America /
Tess Chakkalakal.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2011.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: the slave-marriage plot -- Between fiction and experience: William Wells Brown's Clotel -- Dred and the freedom of marriage: Harriet Beecher Stowe's fiction of law -- Free, black, and married: Frank J. Webb's the Garies and their friends -- "A legally unmarried race": Frances Harper's marital mission -- Wedded to race: Charles Chesnutt's stories of the color line -- Conclusion: reading Hannah Crafts in the twenty-first century.
Reworking classic literary texts to explore the unconventional union of slave-marriage.
9780252093388 9781283223898
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015877572 Uk 015960218 Uk
Slavery in literature. Marriage in literature. Enslaved persons--Social conditions.--United States African Americans in literature.