Diane Roberts is a Professor of English at the University of Alabama.

• INTRODUCTION 1 UNCLE TOM’S CABIN An authentic ghost story 2 “INSTIGATED BY THE DEVIL” The South and Harriet Beecher Stowe 3 MISS WEIGHT, MRS TROLLOPE AND MISS MARTINEAU or, Three British women look at American slavery 4 THE STRANGE CAREER OF FANNY KEMBLE 5 OLLA PODRIDA AMERICA Lydia Maria Child and radical miscegenation; 6 JEMIMA AND JEZEBEL IN THE NEW SOUTH Twentieth-century women on race; Epilogue: Making the word the thing

Diane Roberts is a Professor of English at the University of Alabama.

• INTRODUCTION 1 UNCLE TOM’S CABIN An authentic ghost story 2 “INSTIGATED BY THE DEVIL” The South and Harriet Beecher Stowe 3 MISS WEIGHT, MRS TROLLOPE AND MISS MARTINEAU or, Three British women look at American slavery 4 THE STRANGE CAREER OF FANNY KEMBLE 5 OLLA PODRIDA AMERICA Lydia Maria Child and radical miscegenation; 6 JEMIMA AND JEZEBEL IN THE NEW SOUTH Twentieth-century women on race; Epilogue: Making the word the thing

Diane Roberts is a Professor of English at the University of Alabama.

• INTRODUCTION 1 UNCLE TOM’S CABIN An authentic ghost story 2 “INSTIGATED BY THE DEVIL” The South and Harriet Beecher Stowe 3 MISS WEIGHT, MRS TROLLOPE AND MISS MARTINEAU or, Three British women look at American slavery 4 THE STRANGE CAREER OF FANNY KEMBLE 5 OLLA PODRIDA AMERICA Lydia Maria Child and radical miscegenation; 6 JEMIMA AND JEZEBEL IN THE NEW SOUTH Twentieth-century women on race; Epilogue: Making the word the thing