Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

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anti-slavery novel novel

"Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" is an 1856 anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that explores resistance to slavery through the story of fugitive slaves living in the Great Dismal Swamp.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf anti-slavery novel ⓘ
novel ⓘ
aimedAt Northern readership ⓘ
author Harriet Beecher Stowe ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
depicts maroon communities ⓘ
plantation life ⓘ
slave law in the United States ⓘ
follows Uncle Tom's Cabin ⓘ
form prose fiction ⓘ
genre anti-slavery literature ⓘ
political novel ⓘ
social protest novel ⓘ
hasInfluenceOn 19th-century debates on slavery ⓘ
American abolitionist discourse ⓘ
hasPart two volumes ⓘ
hasSubject slave rebellion ⓘ
slaveholders ⓘ
slaves ⓘ
historicalContext pre–American Civil War era ⓘ
inspiredBy American slavery ⓘ
fugitive slave narratives ⓘ
literaryMovement abolitionist literature ⓘ
mainCharacter Clayton ⓘ
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Harry ⓘ
Nina Gordon ⓘ
mainTheme Christian morality ⓘ
fugitive slaves ⓘ
racial injustice ⓘ
resistance to slavery ⓘ
slavery ⓘ
narrativePerspective third-person narration ⓘ
originalLanguage English ⓘ
placeOfPublication Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ
surface form: Boston
politicalPosition abolitionism ⓘ
portrays legal system of the slaveholding South ⓘ
religious justifications of slavery ⓘ
publicationCentury 19th century ⓘ
publicationYear 1856 ⓘ
publisher Phillips, Sampson and Company ⓘ
relatedWork Uncle Tom's Cabin ⓘ
setting Southern United States ⓘ
surface form: American South

Great Dismal Swamp ⓘ
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