In Old Plantation Days
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87
1903
English
- Aunt Tempe's Triumph
- Aunt Tempe's Revenge
- The Walls of Jericho
- How Brother Parker Fell from Grace
- The Trousers
- The Last Fiddling of Mordaunt's Jim
- A Supper by Proxy
- The Trouble about Sophiny
- Mr. Groby's Slippery Gift
- Ash-Cake Hannah and Her Ben
- Dizzy-Headed Dick
- The Conjuring Contest
- Dandy Jim's Conjure Scare
- The Memory of Martha
- Who Stands for the Gods
- A Lady Slipper
- A Blessed Deceit
- The Brief Cure of Aunt Fanny
- The Stanton Coachman
- The Easter Wedding
- The Finding of Martha
- The Defection of Maria Ann Gibbs
- The Judgment of Paris
- Silent Sam'el
- The Way of a Woman
With this collection of short stories, Dunbar sought to draw on the success of his dialect poems by recreating and portraying the southern plantation during slavery. The stories focus on the stereotypical portrait of slaves as obedient workers happy to spend their lives in service of their benevolent owner. His attempt to find success was only partially realized, as his stories drew not only criticism but, in some cases, anger at their very stereotypical nature. The book itself, however, proved to be more lucrative than previous fiction works had been for the author. (Summary by Special Collections and Archives, Wright State University)
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