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Mary Hayden Green Pike Ida May (Paperback) Broadview Editions (UK IMPORT). Title: Ida May. Ida May appeared so like its predecessor in the genre. Author: Mary Hayden Green Pike. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, that for the month of November 1854 reviewers looked for Harriet Beecher Stowe’s hand in the narrative. Further DetailsTitle: Ida May Condition: New Description: The sentimental antislavery novel Ida May appeared so like its predecessor in the genre, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, that for the month of November 1854 reviewers looked for Harriet Beecher Stowe’s hand in the narrative. Ida May explores the “possibility” of white slavery from the safety of an exciting, romantic narrative; Ida is kidnapped on her fifth birthday from her white middle-class family in Pennsylvania, stained brown, and sold into slavery in the South. Traumatic amnesia brought about by a severe beating keeps her from knowing whom she really is, until after five years in slavery, her identity is recovered in a dramatic flash of recognition. To the abolitionists of the period, fictional narratives of white enslaved children offered a crucial possibility: to unsettle the legitimacy of a race-based system of enslavement. The historical appendices to this Broadview Edition provide context for the novel’s reception, Pike’s racial politics, and the “problem” of white slavery in nineteenth-century abolitionist writing. Author: Mary Hayden Green Pike EAN: 9781554812257 Contributor: Jessie Morgan-Owens (Edited by) ISBN: 9781554812257 Format: Paperback Item Height: 216mm Item Length: 140mm Item Width: 18mm Item Weight: 415g Genre: Fiction ISBN-10: 1554812259 Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd Release Date: 06/23/2017 Language: English Series: Broadview Editions Topic: Classic Fiction Type: Classics Release Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.