Aunt Phillis's Cabin; Or, Southern Life As It Is: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
Aunt Phillis's Cabin; Or, Southern Life As It Is: author and translator credits, catalogue synopsis, subjects and links to the Gutenberg reading formats.
Aunt Phillis's Cabin; Or, Southern Life As It Is is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Eastman, Mary H. (Mary Henderson) (1818–1887).
Catalogue synopsis
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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.
Book and edition facts
- Title: Aunt Phillis's Cabin; Or, Southern Life As It Is
- Author credits: Eastman, Mary H. (Mary Henderson) (1818–1887)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- African American women -- Fiction
- Didactic fiction
- Enslaved persons -- Fiction
- Plantation life -- Fiction
- Political fiction
- Slavery -- Fiction
- Southern States -- Fiction
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- Category: American Literature
- Category: Historical Novels
- Category: Novels
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