[Flanders, Mrs. G.M.] - The Ebony Idol

New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1860. Hardcover. Original brown cloth. Extremities slightly worn, with fraying at top end of backstrip; backstrip and cover edges sun-faded; pages slightly toned; small tears at outside margin of p. 233-240; previous owner's name penciled on title page and front endpaper; otherwise in very good condition. 283p. Illus. Frontispiece with tissue guard and several in-text illustrations. Wright II: 908. An anonymous novel published in the North on the eve of the Civil War, satirizing a New England abolitionist clergyman and depicting the dire consequences of his harboring a fugitive slave. This was one of several novels written in reaction to Uncle Tom's Cabin. The frontis. and some of the text illustrations mockingly depict the fugitive. .

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