Novel bondage slavery, marriage, and freedom in nineteenth-century America - Chakkalakal, Tess (University of Illinois Press, 2011)
Includes bibliographical references 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