For or Against Slavery?
- lskerlak
- Sep 19, 2018
- 1 min read
Caroline Lee Hentz is one of the many pro slavery advocates. Her life in the south and marriage contributed to her support for slavery. Caroline always had a love for literacy and wrote several novels in her lifetime. When she lived in Cincinnati she joined a literacy group that Harriet Beecher Stowe later joined. Shortly after joining the group, she published a novel called Lovells Folley. She wrote this book with the purpose to show the incorrectness of the prejudices against southern people. As she continued writing, most of my novels were consistently set in the south, which she defended northern criticism. Caroline's most famous novel The Planters Northern Bride was a rebuttal of Harriet Beecher Stowe's popular anti - slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.
In this book, the main character is a young daughter of an abolitionist and the wife of a plantation owner. The main character, Eulalia condemns having slaves on his plantation. Part of the reason that she supports slavery is that she is said to be very familiar and knowledgeable about slaves as a result of living in the south. Her argument is that "slaves were actually better off than “northern woman – worker” that society has left behind. The slaves were also housed, clothed and fed by their owners”. Caroline sadly died of Pneumonia February 11, 1856. Her support for slavery inspired her sons to move their families to brazil where they joined other southerners establishing a slave holding society.
Comments