Introduction: “If I am your Wife, I am not your Slave”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: “If I am your Wife, I am not your Slave” 3
4. 1. The Trials of Christopher and Elizabeth Lawson: An Introduction to Post-Reformation Debates about Marriage 16
5. 2. Submit or Starve: Manby v. Scott and the Making of a Precedent 48
6. 3. The Runaway Press 77
7. 4. Marriage, Slavery, and Anglo-Imperial Jurisdictional Politics 110
8. 5. A Matter of Credit: Husbands’ Claims 146
9. 6. “In Justice to my Character”: Wives’ Replies 177
10. 7. Wives Not Slaves 207
11. 8. Rethinking the Revolutionary Road to Divorce 243
12. Epilogue: “The Rigour of the Old Rule” 285
13. Acknowledgments 295
14. Abbreviations and Source Notes 299
15. Notes 301
16. Index 363