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Aunt Phillis's Cabin

Telegraph.co.uk - Books | 1 month ago

Title Deed: How the Book Got its Name

Gary dexter explains the origins of Mary Henderson Eastman's Aunt Phillis's Cabin It's perhaps not too difficult to guess how Aunt Phillis's Cabin got its title. Published in 1852, it was...

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Wikipedia | 5 months ago

Aunt Phillis's Cabin

...or, Southern Life As It Is by Mary Henderson Eastman is an 1852 plantation fiction novel, and is perhaps the most read anti-Tom novel in American literature. Published in 1852, Aunt...

Wikipedia | 7 months ago

The North and the South; or, Slavery and Its Contrasts

...fiction novel by Caroline Rush, and among the first examples of the genre, alongside others such as Aunt Phillis's Cabin by Mary Henderson Eastman and Life at the South; or, "Uncle...

Wikipedia | 6 months ago

Antifanaticism: A Tale of the South

...is an 1853 plantation fiction novel by Martha Haines Butt. Antifanatacism is one of several examples of the plantation literature genre that appeared in reaction to the anti-slavery...

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Anti-Tom literature

...literature refers to the 19th century pro-slavery novels and other literary works written in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Also called Plantation literature, these...

Wikipedia | 9 months ago

The Planter's Northern Bride

...is an 1854 novel written by Caroline Lee Hentz, in response to the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 . Unlike other examples of plantation literature ,...

Wikipedia | 3 months ago

Mr. Frank, the Underground Mail-Agent

...Cabin in 1852, and also released '' - another anti-Tom novel - in the same year as ''Mr. Frank. Mr. Frank now resides in the public domain , and has been recently reprinted by...

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The Black Gauntlet: A Tale of Plantation Life in South Carolina

...from the Deep South of the United States in response to the publication of the 1852 anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, which critics accused of...

Wikipedia | 7 months ago

Frank Freeman's Barber Shop

...The Planter's Northern Bride by Caroline Lee Hentz (1854 ). The story focusses on a slave named Frank (later Frank Freeman), who is convinced to run away from his peaceful life on a...

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The Ebony Idol

...make criticisms of abolitionists like Stowe in their works. The novel takes place in the fictional town of Minton in New England, which is inhabited entirely by white people, and...

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Seth and Mary Eastman

...was appointed commander of Fort Snelling. While stationed there for several years with his family, he continued to study and paint Native American life. He learned much about the...

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Yale College

...was the official name of Yale University from 1718 to 1887. The name now refers to the undergraduate part of the university. Each undergraduate student is assigned to one of 12 residential...