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Aunt Phillis's Cabin : ウィキペディア英語版 | Aunt Phillis's Cabin
''Aunt Phillis's Cabin; or, Southern Life As It Is'' by Mary Henderson Eastman is a plantation fiction novel, and is perhaps the most read anti-Tom novel in American literature. It was published by Lippincott, Grambo & Co. of Philadelphia in 1852 as a response to Stowe's ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'', published earlier that year. The novel sold 20,000-30,000 copies, making it a strong commercial success and bestseller. Based on her growing up in Warrenton, Virginia of an elite planter family, Eastman portrays plantation owners and slaves as mutually respectful, kind, and happy beings. == Overview == Published in 1852, ''Aunt Phillis's Cabin'' contains contrasts and comparisons to the anti-slavery novel, ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' by Harriet Beecher Stowe, which was published earlier that year. It serves as an antithesis; Eastman's novel deliberately referred to the situation in Stowe's ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'', where plantation owners abuse their repressed, disloyal slaves. Eastman portrays white plantation owners who behave benignly toward their slaves. Eastman also uses quotes from various sources – including ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' itself – to explain that slavery is a natural institution, and essential to life.〔M.H. Eastman, Preface to ''Aunt Phillis's Cabin'' (1852)〕 Like other novels of the genre, it contains much dialogue between masters and slaves, in which she portrays "the essential happiness of slaves in the South as compared to the inevitable sufferings of free blacks and the working classes in the North," as noted by the scholar Stephen Railton in the website ''Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture''.〔(Pro-Slavery Novels: "Aunt Phillis' Cabin" ), ''Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture'', University of Virginia, 1998-2009, accessed 23 February 2011〕
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