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Tables of Contents for In Defiance of the Law
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
xi
Introduction: In Defiance of the Law
1
6
Part I: Testing the Bounds of Colonial Law
7
70
The Law of Divine Revelation
13
34
Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian Controversy
The Law of the Great Spirit
47
30
Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie
Part II: Overcoming Slave Law
77
78
Preemancipation Activism
83
32
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Perspectives after Civil Rights
115
40
Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose and Toni Morrison's Beloved
Conclusion: Beyond the Rule of Law
155
4
Notes
159
32
Bibliography
191
36
Index
227