The Cabin and Parlor;

OR,

SLAVES AND MASTERS

This is an annotated text of The Cabin and the Parlor, published by Charles Jacobs Peterson in Philadelphia in 1852.  Original spelling, punctuation and page citations have been retained; minor typographic errors have been corrected.

This electronic edition has been prepared for the Antislavery Literature Project, Arizona State University, a public education project working in cooperation with the EServer, Iowa State University.   Digitization has been supported by a grant from the Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State University.

Editorial annotation by Joe Lockard.  Digitization by Noel Borde,

Mahesh Bhutkar, Nilesh Ralbhat, and Manoj Salvi of NetConnect India.  All rights reserved by the Antislavery Literature Project.  Permission for non-commercial educational use is granted.

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The Cabin and Parlor;

OR,

SLAVES AND MASTERS

By

J. Thornton Randolph

Introduction

                Charles Jacobs Peterson (1819-1887), who published The Cabin and the Parlor under the pseudonym of J. Thornton Randolph, was well-known as a mid-century historical novelist and American military historian.  Peterson was born in Philadelphia and made his business reputation there by publishing inexpensive unauthorized reprints of British novels and Peterson’s Ladies’ National Magazine.  He was a prolific novelist whose work included The Algerine, and Other Tales (1846), Grace Dudley; or, Arnold at Saratoga (1849), The Valley Farm: The Autobiography of an Orphan (1850), Kate Aylsford: A Story of Refugees (1855), The Old Stone Mansion (1859), and The Heiress of Sweetwater (1873).  Peterson published many further titles on early American military history.  For further on his career, see Barrie Hayne, “Standing on Neutral Ground: Charles Jacobs Peterson of Peterson’s,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (1969) 93:510-526.  The Old Stone Mansion is available online at