“Whimsical Contrasts”: Love and Marriage in The Minister's Wooing and Our Nig

Chakkalakal, Tess

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March 01 2011

“Whimsical Contrasts”: Love and Marriage in The Minister's Wooing and Our Nig

Tess Chakkalakal

Tess Chakkalakal, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and English at Bowdoin College, has written articles about a number of early African American authors, including Olaudah Equiano, James Weldon Johnson, and Charles W. Chesnutt. Her Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press; her coedited volumes The Novels of Sutton E. Griggs: A Critical Edition and Literature and Jim Crow: New Essays on Sutton E. Griggs are forthcoming, respectively, from West Virginia University Press and the University of Georgia Press. She is director of the Harriet Beecher Stowe at 200 Conference to be held at Bowdoin College, 22—25 June 2011.

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Tess Chakkalakal

Tess Chakkalakal, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and English at Bowdoin College, has written articles about a number of early African American authors, including Olaudah Equiano, James Weldon Johnson, and Charles W. Chesnutt. Her Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press; her coedited volumes The Novels of Sutton E. Griggs: A Critical Edition and Literature and Jim Crow: New Essays on Sutton E. Griggs are forthcoming, respectively, from West Virginia University Press and the University of Georgia Press. She is director of the Harriet Beecher Stowe at 200 Conference to be held at Bowdoin College, 22—25 June 2011.

Online ISSN: 1937-2213

Print ISSN: 0028-4866

2011

The New England Quarterly (2011) 84 (1): 159–171.

https://doi.org/10.1162/TNEQ_a_00069

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Harriet Wilson's Our Nig (1859), which has been taken to be a response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), has more in common with Stowe's The Minister's Wooing (1859). A reimagining of the lines of influence demonstrates the strengths and weaknesses of Stowe's appreciation of the free black experience in New England.

2011

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