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...