Beadle's Dime Novels No. 33: Maum Guinea and Her Plantation Children — page 10: what you’re looking at

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S|! iv INTRODUCTION. romance by those who read to be informed as well as to be pleased. The several slave-stories given are veritable historical transcripts. That of Nat Turner’s insurrection is drawn from the most reliable authorities, That of the leading character, with slight embellishment, is drawn from a life history, stirring and novel though it be. The various descriptions of barbe- cues, negro-weddings, night-dances, hunts, alligator-adventures, slave-sales, are simple reproductions of what is familiar to every Southerner. “Maum Guinea” has not been written to subserye any special social or political purpose. Finding, in the subject, material of a very novel and original nature, I have simply used what was presented t6 produce a pleasing book. If the moralist or economist should find in it any thing to challenge his or her attention, it will be for the reason that the book is a plotare of'slavelif as it is in ite natural as well as in some of its exceptional phases. — M. V. V. "comicbooksrcom . ae *