Ida May

ISBN-13: 9781554812257 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 400 str.

Mary Hayden Green Pike; Jessie Morgan-Owens

Opis

This is the only available edition of an important American antislavery novel, often compared in its time to Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Mary Hayden Green Pike: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

Ida May

Appendix A: “Who Wrote Ida May?” The Sentimental Antislavery Novel and Genre Formation

1. William Cullen Bryant’s New York Evening Post, November and December 1854
2. Boston Daily Atlas, November 1854
3. Portland Inquirer, November 1854
4. Richard Hildreth’s Boston Evening Telegraph, November 1854
5. Boston Courier, December 1854

Appendix B: Contemporary Response & Selected Reviews of Ida May

1. New York Independent, November 1854
2. The National Era, November 1854
3. The Liberator, November 1854
4. Frederick Douglass’ Paper, November 1854, January 1855
5. Advertisements for Ida May
6. Negative Reviews
7. Southern Reviews

Appendix C: Contextual Documents on Kidnapping and the “Problem” of White Slavery

1. “The Story of Ida May,” Boston Daily Atlas, December 1854
2. From William Craft, Running A Thousand Miles for Freedom, 1860
3. Lydia Maria Child, “Mary French and Susan Easton,” 1834
4. From Francis Coburn Adams, Our World, The Slaveholder’s Daughter, 1855
5. Charles Sumner, “Another Ida May,” Boston Telegraph, February 1855.

Appendix D: About the Author—Mary Hayden Green Pike’s Racial Politics

1. Caroline F. Putnam, The Liberator, October 1859
2. From Mary Hayden Green Pike, Caste: A Story of Republican Equality 1856
3. Frederick A. Pike Congressional address, “Tax, Fight, Emancipate,” February, 1862
4. Mary Hayden Green Pike, “John Brown in Prison,” c. 1859

Works Cited and Select Bibliography