In the Shadow of Uncle Tom's Cabin

D RED, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856) inevitably has been read in the shadow of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). An unavoidable literary obligation, according to one scholar, a second antislavery novel was obviously Stowe's duty to her public and her publishers. As if Stowe had set out to do much the same thing in Dred that she had in Uncle Tom's Cabin, the failure of the second novel is explained as the exhaustion of whatever force lay behind the successful artistry of the first.' The evidence suggests, however, that Harriet Beecher Stowe never intended to write another Uncle Tom's Cabin. Ever more sensitive to the

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