TY - BOOK AU - Chakkalakal,Tess TI - Novel bondage: slavery, marriage, and freedom in nineteenth-century America SN - 9780252093388 AV - PS217 .N684 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Urbana PB - University of Illinois Press KW - Slavery in literature KW - Marriage in literature KW - Enslaved persons KW - United States KW - Social conditions KW - African Americans in literature KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - Reworking classic literary texts to explore the unconventional union of slave-marriage UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=569631&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -