Aunt Phillis's Cabin; Or, Southern Life As It Is by Mary H. Eastman
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"Aunt Phillis's Cabin; Or, Southern Life As It Is" by Mary H. Eastman is a plantation fiction novel published in 1852 as a direct response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Drawing from her Virginia upbringing, Eastman portrays slavery as a benign institution where plantation owners and enslaved people coexist in mutual respect and happiness. The story follows various characters in rural Virginia, demonstrating what the author presents as the "essential
happiness" of enslaved people compared to free blacks in the North. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Eastman, Mary H. (Mary Henderson), 1818-1887 |
|---|---|
| Title | Aunt Phillis's Cabin; Or, Southern Life As It Is |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Phillis%27s_Cabin |
| Credits |
Produced by University of Michigan Digital Library, Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Slavery -- Fiction |
| Subject | Didactic fiction |
| Subject | Political fiction |
| Subject | Southern States -- Fiction |
| Subject | African American women -- Fiction |
| Subject | Plantation life -- Fiction |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 16741 |
| Release Date | Sep 24, 2005 |
| Last Update | Dec 12, 2020 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 541 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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