| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

The "Tragic Mulatta" Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction. By Eve Allegra Raimon. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004. xii, 202 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8135-3481-X. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8135-3482-8.)

Female slaves of mixed racial ancestry abound in antislavery fiction. Beautiful by European standards, sexually imperiled, and typically betrayed by white fathers or lovers, these figures seem calculated to expose the arbitrariness of racial categorization as well as the injustice of chattel slavery. As critics have suggested, antebellum authors narrated the plight of these so-called tragic mulattas in order to win the sympathy of, and encourage antislavery activism among, a white readership, even as such characters reinforced mainstream U.S. culture's rampant Europhilia and color-based prejudices.

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