SOUTHERN SLAVERY Civil War Confederate Plantation Slave

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COUSIN FRANCK'S HOUSEHOLD This auction is for an original 1853 edition of " COUSIN FRANCK'S HOUSEHOLD, OR, SCENES IN THE OLD DOMINION " by Emily Pearson, who wrote this book under the name "Pocahontas." YOU'LL LOVE THIS BOOK!!! Published shortly after Harriet Beecher Stowe's " Uncle Tom's Cabin ," this book was meant to refute Stowe's account of the brutality of slavery and to defend the institution. It offers a defense of slavery as seen through the eyes of a southern woman. It is filled with 259 pages of letters, to and from the author, depicting with accuracy the lives of people in Virginia, including the slaves, the "poor whites" and the plantation owners. As with other anti-Tom novels, Pearson's novel tries to show that black people lacked the ability to function well without the oversight of whites. Throughout the story, is a rebuttal to the Northern sentiments and insinuations that slaves are unhappy and treated horribly. In her day, the author was well known for her reality based works of fiction. She wrote this book under "Pocahontas" name because Pocahontas assumed both a literal and figurative mother of Virginia's elite whites. Through her marriage to John Rolfe, she was in fact a direct ancestor to many of the state's aristocracy --- John Marshall, John Randolph, and Thomas Jefferson all claimed space in the read more

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