Aunt Phillis’s Cabin; or, Southern Life As It Is.

EASTMAN, Mary H.

Item Number: 142127

Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co, 1852.

First edition of one of the most famous anti-Tom novels, written in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s enormously influential antislavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth, recased, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece. Sabin 21683. In good condition.

Perhaps the most read anti-Tom novel in American literature, Mary Henderson Eastman's Aunt Phillis's Cabin was published by Lippincott, Grambo & Co. of Philadelphia in 1852 as a response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, published earlier that year. The novel sold 20,000–30,000 copies, far fewer than Stowe's novel, but still a strong commercial success and bestseller. Based on her growing up in Warrenton, Virginia, of an elite planter family, Eastman portrayed plantation owners and slaves as mutually respectful, kind, and happy beings.