Novel bondage slavery, marriage, and freedom in nineteenth-century America / Tess Chakkalakal.

Author/creator Chakkalakal, Tess
Format Electronic
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press,
Description145 p. ; 24 cm.
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Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [133]-138) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011008194
ISBN9780252036330 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0252036336 (cloth : alk. paper)

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