The story takes place in the county of Shropshire in England, where capitalist Mr. It is presented as though the story were being recounted by a retired barrister from Lincolnshire in England to a reporter from the United States. The story follows the history of the United States from its time as a British province to the beginning of tensions between North and South in the 1850s.
Instead, Burwell's novel acts as an allegory for the history of slavery in the United States, in a manner similar to George Orwell's Animal Farm, which acts as an allegory for the history of the Soviet Union. īurwell's novel, however, departs from the usual outline of most anti-Tom novels, which often narrated stories of loyal slaves serving benign plantation owners who were disturbed by troublesome abolitionists. Black Acre is one of several pro-slavery novels published in the Southern United States in response to Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852. Black Acre is an 1856 plantation fiction novel written by William M. C.100 pp (May change depending on the publisher and the size of the text)
