...to rest easy and accept the benefits of white manhood: "Let women and negroes alone," he cautions. "Leave them in their humility, their grateful affection,...be your study to become worthy to be the object of their sentiments."103 Mammy was, thus, the perfect image for antebellum Southerners. As the personification...

...him there."56 When the narrator speaks of educating blacks, Balcombe indignantly chastises him to let "negroes alone, and instead of quacking with them,...and let it be your study to become worthy to be the objects of these sentiments."57 In his second novel, The Partisan Leader, Tucker dramatizes the ideas...