DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. Describe examples of the plantation tradition found in modern advertising.
2. List examples of the plantation tradition in popular songs.
3. Granting that Swallow Barn was the truthful picture of a Virginia plantation, why is its influence on literature dangerous?
4. What is damaging in Kennedy’s admission that he could not record Negro speech?
5. List examples of what you consider the greatest exaggerations in the pictures of slavery given by these books, and state your reasons for so considering them.
6. List the similar situations and arguments of these books.
7. Which novelists defend slavery because of the physical traits of Negroes?
CHAPTER III
ANTISLAVERY FICTION