The Slave in the Swamp

William Tynes Cowan

Chapter 1 Introduction: Into the Dismal Swamp; Identity and the Dynamics of Space; Chapter 2 Sambo, Nat, and the Gentleman Planter: Notions of Self on the Plantation; Chapter 3 The Slave in the Swamp: Claiming Space; Chapter 4 John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow Barn and the Birth of Plantation Literature; Literary Swamps of the 1850s; Chapter 5 Proslavery Writers in the Wake of Uncle Tom's Cabin; Chapter 6 African American Views of the Swamp: Slave Narratives and Early Fiction; Chapter 7 Stowe's Dred and the Discourse of Violence in the 1850s; Reconciliation and Lost Cause; Chapter 8 Dredging the Swamps: Joel Chandler Harris and the Packaging of African American Folklore; Chapter 9 The Cult of the Lost Cause and Thomas Nelson Pages “No Haid Pawn”; Chapter 10 George Washington Cable's The Grandissimes and Plantation Narrative(s); Chapter 11 Conclusion: The Body of the Maroon;