Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, Mrs.

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Slavery--United States--Fiction
(lcsh) United States--Race relations--Fiction

found: LC data base, 01-31-94(access point: Schoolcraft, Mary Howard; usage: Mrs. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Mrs. Henry R. Schoolcraft)

found: Letters on the condition of the African race in the United States, 1852:title page (a southern lady)

found: Wikipedia, July 27, 2016:Henry Schoolcraft (On January 12, 1847, after moving to Washington, DC, the widower Schoolcraft married again at age 53, to Mary Howard (died March 12, 1878), a southern slaveholder from an elite planter family of the Beaufort district of South Carolina. In 1860 she published the novel The Black Gauntlet (which she said her husband had encouraged). One of many pro-slavery books published in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's bestselling Uncle Tom's Cabin, such defenses of slavery became known as the anti-Tom genre, published in the decade before the American Civil War) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Schoolcraft