{"product_id":"9781554812257","title":"Ida May","description":"\u003cp\u003e The sentimental antislavery novel \u003cem\u003eIda May\u003c\/em\u003e appeared so like its predecessor in the genre, \u003cem\u003eUncle Tom’s Cabin\u003c\/em\u003e, that for the month of November 1854, reviewers looked for Harriet Beecher Stowe’s hand in the narrative. \u003cem\u003eIda May\u003c\/em\u003e explores the “possibility” of white slavery from the safety of an exciting, romantic narrative: Ida is kidnapped on her fifth birthday from her white middle-class family in Pennsylvania, stained brown, and sold into slavery in the South. Traumatic amnesia brought about by a severe beating keeps her from knowing who she really is, until after five years in slavery her identity is recovered in a dramatic flash of recognition. To the abolitionists of the period, fictional narratives of white enslaved children offered a crucial possibility: to unsettle the legitimacy of a race-based system of enslavement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe historical appendices to this Broadview Edition provide context for the novel’s reception, Pike’s racial politics, and the “problem” of white slavery in nineteenth-century abolitionist writing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050071834864,"sku":"9781554812257","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781554812257_p0.jpg?v=1763756296","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781554812257","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}