Antifanaticism : A Tale of the South
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Voici un bel exemple de la perspective tordue des filles d’oppresseurs qui prennent le méfaits de leurs pères pour des oeuvres charitables.
In her Preface, Butt refers to herself as “a warm-hearted Virginian.” In her Concluding Remarks, she acknowledges that she is young and this is her first book. In both places (and at several points inside the narrative) she says she is writing “to defend the South” from Harriet Beecher Stowe. At the end she invites Stowe to visit the South, sure that she’ll see for herself how kind masters are, and how contented are the slaves.
That’s one of the two main motifs of Butt’s novel: bringing Northerners with abolitionist sentiments into Virginia, to enjoy “Southern Hospitality” and to go back to the North singing the praises of the slave system.
The other main motif is an account of slave life that makes it seem that the main business of the plantation was to insure the slaves’ happiness.