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The Tar Baby and the Tomahawk: Race and Ethnic Images in American Children's Literature, 1880-1939

Thomas Nelson Page

Thomas Nelson Page (1853 - 1922) was an American writer, lawyer, and ambassador to Italy during the First World War. As a writer, Page popularized the plantation tradition of Southern writing which depicted a romanticized vision of plantation life and the institution of slavery prior to the Civil War.