The Planter's Northern Bride
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Author | Caroline Lee Hentz |
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Language | English |
Genre | Plantation literature |
Publisher | T.B. Peterson Ltd. |
Publication date | 1854 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) & E-book |
Pages | c. 300 pp |
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.
Overview
Unlike other examples of anti-Tom literature (aka "plantation literature"), the title The Planter's Northern Bride is not a pun on Uncle Tom's Cabin, as was the case with Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston (1853).[1]
The novel, unlike previous examples of plantation literature, criticized abolitionism in the United States and how easily anti-slavery organisations such as the Underground Railroad could be manipulated by pro-slavery superiors – a concept previously discussed in Rev. Baynard Rush Hall's earlier anti-Tom novel, Frank Freeman's Barber Shop (1852).[2]
Plot
The book's main character is Eulalia, a young daughter of an abolitionist from New England and the wife of a plantation owner named Moreland. At first indoctrinated by her father's views on abolitionism, Eulalia initially condemns her husband's use of slaves on his plantation – even though he is behaving benignly towards them – but she soon realises how well off Moreland's slaves truly are.
As time passes, Eulalia also discovers a plot by a group of local abolitionists to stage a large-scale slave rebellion, with aims to "free" the otherwise-content slaves of the plantation and to murder both Moreland and Eulalia, despite their kindness to their slaves.
Publication history
Hentz's novel was first published in novelised form by T.B. Peterson Ltd. in 1854.[3]
The publishers of Hentz's novel had been responsible for the release of another anti-Tom novel two years previously: The Cabin and Parlor; or, Slaves and Masters by Charles Jacobs Peterson (1852).[4]
References
External links
- The Planter's Northern Bride at the University of Virginia
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- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1903)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin (Thanhouser, 1910)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin (Vitagraph, 1910)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1918)
- Topsy and Eva (1927)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)
- Onkel Toms Hütte (1965)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987)
- Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land (1931)
- Mickey's Mellerdrammer (1933)
- Uncle Tom's Bungalow (1937)
- Uncle Tom's Cabaña (1947)
- Southern Fried Rabbit (1953)
- Aunt Phillis's Cabin
- The Planter's Northern Bride
- Little Eva: The Flower of the South
- Uncle Tom's Cabin As It Is
- Uncle Robin's Cabin
- "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Contrasted with Buckingham Hall, the Planter's Home
- Ellen; or, The Fanatic's Daughter
- The Ebony Idol
- Frank Freeman's Barber Shop
- The North and the South; or, Slavery and Its Contrasts
- Mr. Frank, the Underground Mail-Agent
- The Cabin and Parlor; or, Slaves and Masters
- The Black Gauntlet
- White Acre vs. Black Acre
- Antifanaticism
- The Lofty and the Lowly
- The Leopard's Spots
- Josiah Henson
- Dimples
- Goodbye Uncle Tom
- Tit for Tat
- Uncle Tom syndrome
- Underground Railroad
- The National Era
- Onkel Toms Hütte (Berlin U-Bahn)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Brunswick, Maine)
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