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Filling a long-standing gap in our knowledge about slave-marriage, 'Novel Bondage' unravels the interconnections between marriage, slavery, and freedom through renewed readings of canonical nineteenth-century novels and short stories by black and white authors. Tess Chakkalakal expertly mines antislavery and post-Civil War fiction to extract literary representations of slave-marriage, revealing how these texts and their public responses took aim not only at the horrors of slavery but also at the legal conventions of marriage.

Slavery in literature --- Marriage in literature --- Slaves --- United States --- Social conditions --- African Americans in literature --- Brown, William Wells, 1815-1884. Clotel, or, The President's Daughter (1853) --- Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher --- Webb, Frank J. --- Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins --- Criticism and interpretation --- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell --- Crafts, Hannah --- African Americans in literature. --- Marriage in literature. --- Slavery in literature. --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Social conditions. --- Enslaved persons in literature --- Enslaved persons