{"product_id":"ida-may","title":"Ida May","description":"\u003cp\u003e\nThe 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.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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.\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66233385386333,"sku":null,"price":28.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/3893\/2573\/files\/9781554812257.jpg?v=1792201721","url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/ida-may","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}