Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Introduction: The Slave-Marriage Plot
1. Between Fiction and Experience: William Wells Brown's Clotel
2. Dred and the Freedom of Marriage: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Fiction of Law
3. Free, Black, and Married: Frank J. Webb's The Garies and Their Friends
4. "A Legally Unmarried Race": Frances Harper's Marital Mission
5. Wedded to Race: Charles Chesnutt's Stories of the Color Line
Conclusion: Reading Hannah Crafts in the Twenty-First Century
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index