ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
First and foremost, I would like to thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I often
awoke and listened to your call to write, or looked at the moon and prayed for better
days. Even better days are yet to come.
My ancestors who guide with their immaterial and indomitable presence. My
father James Smith and his mother Marcella Smith, Grandma Annabelle and Mr. Nor.
You told me I’m okay and to live my life. I am. And, I will.
My sister Angelique Marcella Gainyard aka “Celie,” showed me I can kick ass
but still be a lady. You and me, Us never part, Makidada.
My mother, Diane G. Williams aka Mommy Lady, who told me to write. You are
a constant source of love, laughter and stories, but ever present worry. What are you
going to do to give me another gray hair now?
Jamie Gainyard, Christopher Gainyard, and Michael Gainyard, aka the three
musketeers. You were my protectors whenever I needed you. Now if y’all can learn to
protect each other and stop bickering so much!
But most of all, my son Solomon Uriel Abdul-Wahhab. Mr. Solomon, you are my
light, fire, and peace. I thank God for sending you to me when I was younger. You have
inherited the essence of my spirit and have grown into you’re a man all your own.
Nancy Wyland, my sister from another mister. Your good food and even better
company have kept me afloat many a days…
Kathleen Diffley you have been a guardian Angel perambulating the halls of EPB.
Your quiet wisdom and eagle-eye smarts have gotten me through many a years, pages,
and now a dissertation. All I can say is Natch!
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Thank you, Harry Stecopoulos for your expertise and professional advice. Bluford
Adams for your quietly intense questions and comments. Frederick Woodard, Barbara
Mooney, Miriam Thaggert for being my saving graces. Thank You David and Rebecca
Hamilton and Robin Hemley for becoming my colleagues in the unlikeliest of places.
Sometimes you have to travel far to make friends who live near huh?
Aja-Jielle Brown, Eisa Nefatari Ulen-Richardson, Joanne Edey-Rhodes, David
Hodges, Dr. Louis Ray and the Hunter College Ronald E. McNair Program alum 2000.
Thank you for getting me back on track to greatness.
Kevin and Maria Kummer and all my family in Christ from the University of
Iowa Intervarsity Graduate Christian Fellowship Group (IVCGF) and Grace Community
Church.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES vi
INTRODUCTION 1
Do You See What I See? Competing Perspectives of the Antebellum
Plantation in John Pendleton Kennedy’s Swallow Barn 1
A Middle Temperament: The Tidewater Past and The Northern
Industrialized Future 8
The Paradoxical Plantation in Print 13
Swallow Barn: A Spatial Analysis 23
CHAPTER
I. HOUSE DIVIDED: THE ABOLITIONIST DEPLOYMENT OF THE
PLANTATION LANDSCAPE, 1850-1861 37
“Cotton Threads Hold the Union Together?” Plantation Geography
Exposes the Detritus of Slavery Through the Cotton Gin-House
Shed in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin 40
Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Sources and Serialization 44
Plantation Geography: the Cotton Gin-House Shed Transforms
“A Man That Was a Thing” 48
Illustrative Possibilities of the Shed: Three Cases 53
I am Not Ashamed to Call Them Brethren”: Political Abolitionism
Maps New Ground in Frederick Douglass’s The Heroic Slave 69
II. PARADISE LOST: THE STATE OF THE MYTH DURING THE
CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION 98
Of Thee I Write: The Civil War in Popular Print 101
The Countryman: Sources and Serialization 103
The Old Plantation: A Poem 108
“Let My People Go”: From Patriarchy to Matriarchy in Frances E.W.
Harper’s Minnie’s Sacrifice 126
III. THE ‘GOOD OLE DAYS’: RECONCILIATIONIST LITERATURE
AND ITS DISCONTENTS 145
Turnwold 151
The Old South Made “New”: Atlanta and the Atlanta Constitution 154
Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby”: Stories of the Old Plantation 164
“‘Lethe’ We Forget”: Memory and Place-Making in Charles Chesnutt’s
The Conjure Woman 172
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CONCLUSION 195
“What of Berry?” Family Dishonor on the Post-Bellum “Plantation” in
Paul Laurence Dunbar’s The Sport of the Gods 195
NOTES 217
REFERENCES 233
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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure
1. The Bower 12
2. Mammy Lucy 21
3. Sketch of the Old Barn 23
4. Abe With Out-Lyers 30
5. Eva and Tom Reading the Bible 56
6. Cassy Nursing Tom 57
7. Tom Saving Sambo and Quimbo 63
8. Shelby Finds Uncle Tom Dying 65
9. He is Not Ashamed to Call Them Brethren 71
10. George’s Vow at Tom’s Grave 77
11. Turnwold 105
12. The Archibald Blair Dairy House, Now Grissell Hay Dairy 113
13. Uncle Remus and His Deceitful Jug 168
14. Cover Image for The Conjure Woman 182
15. The Old Market House 185
16. Edna Morton in ‘The Sport of the Gods 1923’” 215
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