Lewis & Milton Clarke, Narratives of the Sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke, 1st ed.

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Narratives of the Sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke is a follow-up slave narrative to the already important Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke (1845).

Of the many slave narratives published by abolition societies, this one may have been uniquely influential as a model for Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. An obituary inserted claims Milton Clarke “inspired the writing of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” It asserts that Lewis Clarke was the model for the character George Harris, a story corroborated by Stowe. Milton Clarke also stated that the model for Uncle Tom was an enslaved man named Same Pete whom Lewis “saw whipped to death in Madison County, Kentucky.” The entire story was related to Stowe who later crafted it into her novel.

Includes multiple appendices written by Cassius Marcellus Clay and John Greeleaf Whitter among others.

Very light foxing; light chipping of the extremities; newspaper obituary pasted-in rear flyleaves; else very good. Bright and tight.

Clarke, Lewis & Clarke, Milton. NARRATIVES OF THE SUFFERINGS OF LEWIS AND MILTON CLARKE, SONS OF A SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTION, DURING A CAPTIVITY OF MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS AMONG THE SLAVEHOLDERS OF KENTUCKY… Boston: Bella Marsh, 1846. 1st edition thus, 144p., frontispiece (Howes C-457).