Aunt Phillis's Cabin: Or, Southern Life as it is

"A picture of Southern life taken at different points of view from the one occupied by the author of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin. The writer being a native of the South, is familiar with the many varied aspects assumed by domestic servitude in the sunny region, and therefore feels competent to give pictures of Southern Life as it Is. Pledged to no clique or party, and free from the pressure of any and all extraneous influences, she has written her book with a view to its truthfulness; and the public at the North, as well as at the South, will find in Aunt Phillis's Cabin not the distorted picture of an interested painter....It is the truth that all profess to seek, and in a matter of such vital interest to the whole nation as Domestic Slavery. Truth - not highly wrought imaginary representations - is above all things demanded. Such truth in the enticing garb of a skillful fiction will Aunt Phillis's Cabin present. The author does not come before the public as the apologist of Slavery, but with the earnest desire to represent it as it is, and in doing so, she will show its ameliorating features in strong contrast with the painful scenes so elaborately set forth in 'Uncle Tom's Cabin." -The Literary World, Volume 11, July, 1852