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Ezra Tawil teaches in the English Department of the University of Rochester. He is author of The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of the Frontier Romance and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature.

Reveals the influence of the frontier romance of the 1820s on later anti-slavery works such as Uncle Tom's Cabin.

The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significance of slavery in American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day. In addition to stressing how central slavery has been to the study of American culture, this Companion provides students with a broad introduction to an impressive range of authors including Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher St...

Reveals the influence of the frontier romance of the 1820s on later anti-slavery works such as Uncle Tom's Cabin.