_The Cabin and Parlor_ book titlepage
The Cabin and Parlor; or, Slaves and Masters
1971 (Date copyrighted)
1852 (Date copyrighted)
1852 (Date copyrighted)
Hardcover pro-slavery anti-Tom novel by author Charles Jacobs Peterson writing under the pseudonym J. Thornton Randolph. Based in anti-capitalist ideology, this book attacks the North for its exploitation of the working class instead of enslaved black people. Peterson establishes his critique through constructing a narrative of a wealthy Virginia family that went bankrupt and sold their enslaved people. The son of the family, Horace, travels north for work and is hired as a clerk and overworked to death, literally speaking. Peterson defines Horace as a “Northern slave.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford, CT
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