Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America

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Index amalgamation, 89, 91–93, 124n42 Anthony, Susan B., 71 antislavery movement: Brown writings on, 21; Enlightenment philosophy as antislavery foundation, 26–28; influence on women’s rights movement, 43; legal slave marriage associated with, 55 Beecher, Catherine, 33 Bentley, Nancy, 86, 100–101 Bibb, Henry, 1 Blackstone, William, 32 Blackwell, Henry R., 118n64 Blassingame, John, 4, 8 Breckenridge, Robert J., 31 Brown, William Wells: autobiographical writings of, 17, 116n9; on forced marriage , 108–9; on forced separation, 21–22, 73; as fugitive slave, 29, 109; on legal marriage, 54; marriages of, 10, 17; origin of personal name, 18; sentimental discourse in, 3, 113–14n7; on slave marriage as ideal, 2–4, 48; on slaveowner conjugal relations, 37. Works: The Narrative of the Life of William W. Brown (1847), 15, 17, 23; “The American Slave-Trade” (1848), 21; Clotel (1853), see main entry Clotel; Clotelle (1867), 30; My Southern Home (1880), 17 Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 58 Castronovo, Russ, 116n9 Chesnutt, Charles W.: on the “color line,” 84–85, 87–88, 94–95, 105–6; on marriage as racial affiliation, 97–99, 104–5, 107; on mixed-race marriages, 85–86, 97–98; racial amalgamation theory, 89, 91–93; as realist writer, 131n96; on segregation , 94–95, 97; on slave-marriage legitimation, 13, 84. Works: “What Is a White Man?” (1889), 89; “Cicely’s Dream” (1899), 103–4; The Conjure Woman (1899), 97–98, 105; “Her Virginia Mammy” (1899), 101–3; “A Matter of Principle” (1899), 100–101; “Uncle Wellington’s Wives” (1899), 83–88, 93, 112; “The Wife of His Youth” (1899), 88–91, 97–99, 102; “The Future American ” (1900), 89, 92; The House behind the Cedars (1900), 87; The Marrow of Tradition (1901), 86–87, 93–94 Chesnutt, Mary, 120n24 Child, Lydia Maria: on coverture, 6; on legal marriage, 9, 54; on sexual abuse by slaveholders, 3, 7; slave marriage in, 6–7; on women’s rights, 33. Works: “The Quadroons” (1842), 25; “Slavery’s Pleasant Homes” (1843), 6–7 Christian, Frank W., 119n2 i-x_1-150_Chakk.indd 139 5/20/11 2:05 PM 140 Index Christian, George L., 119n2 Christianity: as basis for marriage, 9, 73, 111; Christian “ideal beings” in Harper, 67, 69, 77–78; justification of slavery in, 26–27, 31; religious acceptance of slave bigamy/adultery, 22–23; sanctioned marriage as barrier to authentic love, 25–26 Clotel (Brown): antislavery theme in, 26–27, 51; edition of 1867, 30; religious foundation of marriage in, 22–23; reunion of George and Mary Green, 28–29; slave marriage depiction in, 2–3, 16–18, 23–25, 50–51 Cole, Jean Lee, 127n38 Collins, Julia, 127n38 Colson v. Quander (legitimation), 119n2 concubinage, 31–32, 52 Coontz, Stephanie, 20, 48 Cornell, Drucilla, 3 Cott, Nancy, 53, 85 coverture: defined, 6; debt and inheritance laws, 71; Harper critique of, 12– 13, 64–65; legal principles of, 28, 32–33; women’s rights and, 43. See also law; marriage; property Craft, William and Ellen, 8–9, 28, 110 Crafts, Hannah (The Bondwoman’s Narrative , 1850s), 108–12 Crane, Gregg, 34 Delany, Martin, 58, 65 Dickens, Charles, 24–25 Dickinson, Anna E. (What Answer? 1868), 74–75, 127n39 Douglass, Anna, 15 Douglass, Frederick: on marriage as token of freedom, 49–50; on nonfiction as an obligation, 4; women’s scholarship as complement for, 58. Works: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), 15, 49–50; My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), 15 Dred (Stowe): as antislavery novel, 31–34, 41–46, 121n59; critique of legal marriage , 32–34, 39–42, 44–46, 119n9, 119n12; critique of property, 35–39; legitimacy of slave marriage in, 119n2; slave marriage as ideal in, 10, 33–34, 41–42, 46, 111 Duane, Anna Mae, 124–25n56 Du Bois, W. E. B., 105, 120n19 duCille, Ann: on the consequences of legitimation, 84, 85; on marriage in African-American literature, 49; on the Sally Hemings DNA tests, 115n35; on slave marriage as resistance, 8, 18; on “unreal estates,” 115n30 Dunbar, Erica Armstrong, 122n8 Duncan, Charles, 89 Ellison, Ralph, 92–93 emancipation. See freedom Ernest, John, 5, 21 escape: Dismal Swamp escape in Dred, 42; feigned marital submission as strategy for, 16–17, 109; forced marriage as impetus for, 108–9; as marriage issue, 2, 9, 16–17, 28, 110–11. See also freedom feminism. See women fiction: The Bondwoman’s Narrative as slave fiction, 108; conceptualization of slave marriage, 1–2; Garie-Winston fictional marriage, 50; “happy ending” marriage narrative, 29, 48, 61–63...