The Black Gauntlet: A Tale of Plantation Life in South Carolina

"[A]n example of the pro-slavery plantation literature genre that was written in response to the anti-slavery novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe ... unusual as a late example, as the majority were written and published soon after 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' ... part of the public, rhetorical arguments between North and South in the years of the rising political and social tensions before the American Civil War ... Unlike other anti-Tom novels, 'The Black Gauntlet' does not have a discernible narrative. It is essentially a collection of speeches by characters who argue in favor of American slavery as an institution. Some of the speeches were created by Schoolcraft. In other cases, she refers to quotations from other published works, including the Bible and Uncle Tom's Cabin"--Wikipedia, viewed on November 3, 2015.