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A. Woodward
Known today for a single surviving 1853 book, this little-documented writer entered one of the fiercest American debates of the 19th century. The result was a forceful rebuttal to Uncle Tom's Cabin that now stands as a revealing artifact of pro-slavery argument in its own time.
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A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, An Essay on Slavery
by A. Woodward
About the author
Very little reliable biographical information appears to be available about A. Woodward. Library and digitized-book records consistently identify the author of A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, An Essay on Slavery and date the book to 1853, with publication in Cincinnati by Applegate & Co. Some catalog records also give the author as A. Woodward, M.D., but beyond that, the person's life and background are not clearly documented in the sources I could confirm.
What can be said with confidence is that A. Woodward wrote in direct response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. The book argues against Stowe's anti-slavery case and defends slavery, making it part of the body of controversial pro-slavery literature published in the United States before the Civil War.
Because so little verified personal information is readily available, A. Woodward is remembered less as a fully known public figure than as the author of a specific historical document. For modern listeners, that work is most useful as evidence of the ideas and arguments circulating in America in 1853, rather than as a window into a well-recorded literary career.