The sentimental antislavery novel Ida May appeared so like its
predecessor in the genre, Uncle Tom's Cabin, that for the month of
November 1854 reviewers looked for Harriet Beecher Stowe's hand in
the narrative. Ida May explores the "possibility" of white slavery
from the safety of an exciting, romantic narrative; Ida is
kidnapped on her fifth birthday from her white middle-class family
in Pennsylvania, stained brown, and sold into slavery in the South.
Traumatic amnesia brought about by a severe beating keeps her from
knowing whom she really is, until after five years in slavery, her
identity is recovered in a dramatic flash of recognition. To the
abolitionists of the period, fictional narratives of white enslaved
children offered a crucial possibility: to unsettle the legitimacy
of a race-based system of enslavement. The historical appendices to
this Broadview Edition provide context for the novel's reception,
Pike's racial politics, and the "problem" of white slavery in
nineteenth-century abolitionist writing.
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