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