Title: Swallow barn, or, A sojourn in the Old Dominion
First published: 1856
Description: The book itself is an event in cultural history, not to be taken as truth, but as an argument of what one man thought The South should be, highly influential in the global justification of paternalism and a self-fullfilling prophesy that inspired the culture of the Antebellum South.
Subjects: Fiction, Plantation life, Fiction, general, American fiction
Places: Virginia