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Contents Acknowledgments    ix Preface In the Beginning, a Photograph    xi Introduction The Personal Becomes the Project    xv 1 “To Woman . . . I Say Depart!”    1 The Plantation Literary Tradition, the Emergent Anti–Uncle Tom Novel, and Gender 2 Sanctified by Wealth and Whiteness   25 Mother-Saviors—and Not—in the Urban North 3 Justified by Mother’s Milk 63 Mammies and Mistress Figures in Proslavery Fiction’s Plantation South 4 The Background that Belies the Myth 97 The Historical Record that Helps Explain the Preponderance of Nonslaveholding Proslavery Women Authors 5 Mothering the Other, Othering the Mother    126 An African American Woman Novelist Battles Slavery and Uncle Tom 6 Still Playing with Fire    136 Perpetuation and Refutation of the Plantation Romance in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Novels by Women Notes    161 Bibliography    177 Index    191 ...

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