While most people know that Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous book
Uncle Tom's Cabin spurred on abolotionist sentiments in the North,
not many are aware of the vast abolitionist literature of
children's books, poems, short stories, and essays. Many of these
volumes were not written by seasoned authors, but by women whose
primary roles were as mothers who functioned as domestic
abolitionists, and have been lost to the ages. Here, De Rosa
recovers a collection of these writings, illustrating the domestic
abolitionists' efforts While most people know that Harriet Beecher
Stowe's famous book Uncle Tom's Cabin spurred on abolitionist
sentiments in the North, not many are aware of the fast
abolitionist literature of children's books, poems, short stories,
and essays. Many of these volumes were written by domestic women,
not seasoned authors, and have been lost to the ages. Here, De Rosa
recovers a collection of these writings, illustrating the domestic
abolitionists' efforts when cultural imperatives demanded women's
silence. These women asserted their anti-slavery sentiments through
the voices of victims (slave children and mothers), white
mother-historians, and abolitionist children in juvenile
literature, one of the few genres available to female authors of
the period. This collection restores the voices of these little
known authors and shows how their voices helped to influence
children and adults of the period. For women struggling to find a
voice in the abolitionist movement while maintaining the codes of
gender and respectability, writing children's literature was an
acceptable strategy to counteract the opposition. By seizing the
opportunity to write abolitionist juvenile literature, domestic
abolitionists maintained their identities as exemplary
mother-educators, preserved their claims to femininity,and
simultaneously entered the public arena. By adapting literary
strategies popular in nineteenth-century juvenile narratives,
domestic novels, and slave narratives to document slavery's
violation of religious, economic, and political principles, these
women spoke out against and institution that stood in marked
contrast to the beliefs they held so dear. This anthology aims to
fill the important gap in our understanding of women's literary
productions about race and gender and illustrates the limitations
of a canon that excludes such voices.
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