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African American Folklore
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Dismal Swamps
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George Green
Great Dismal Swamp
Literary Battle
literary spatial analysis
maroon communities
Master Slave Relationship
Mike Brown
Nat Turner's Rebellion
nineteenth century American literature
Plantation Fiction
Plantation Genre
plantation literature critical analysis
Plantation Narrative
Planter's Image
Popular Science
Popular Science Monthly
Postbellum Writers
proslavery
proslavery ideology
Proslavery Writers
Sambo Stereotype
Slave Narratives
slave narratives studies
swallow
Swallow Barn
tom's
uncle
Uncle Remus Tales
Uncle Tom's Cabin
White America
William Wells Brown
writers
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415972161
- Weight: 710g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Dec 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In 19th century plantation literature, the runaway slave in the swamp was a recurring "bogey-man" whose presence challenged myths of the plantation system. By escaping to the swamps with its wild and threatening connotations, the runaway gained an invisibility that was more threatening to the institution than open rebellion. In part, the proslavery plantation novel served to transform that image of the free slave in the swamp from its untouchable, abstract state to a form that could be possessed, understood, and controlled. Essentially, writers defending the institution would conjure forth the rebellious image in order to dispel it safely.
