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I display my advanced writing and research abilities through the production of my undergraduate thesis, that I spent three consecutive semesters researching, writing, and improving upon. I wrote my thesis on the female authors that wrote novels in retaliation of Uncle Tom's Cabin and reveal their participation in American slavery. To highlight my composition skills, I have provided an except of my thesis, Chapter Three. The immense source materials I handled are displayed below my excerpt on this page. My thesis and bibliography are also available to download below.

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Pleasing the Patriarchy Through Plantation Literature

Chapter Three: Whitewashing Racial Stereotypes

I. Introduction

“A colored woman said to me, ‘I would rather work for any people than the Abolitionists. They expect us to do so much, and they say we ought to work cheaper for them because they are ‘our friends,” Eastman alleges. The proslavery author here characterizes a happily enslaved person, opposed to the freedom the North grants to those wanting to escape slavery in the South. Creating characters that could act out the fictional story of slavery’s “humaneness” would be Southern novelists’ strategy to defend the institution. In this way, women acted as

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Leading scholars:

Genovese, Eugene and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders’ World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Stevenson, Brenda E. Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Weiner, Marli F. “Plantation Mistresses' Attitudes toward Slavery in South Carolina,” Journal in Slavery and Emancipation, edited by Rick Halpern and Enrico Dal Lago. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2002.