and Baldwin N.Y. The illustrations are "hand-coloured", and the back cover included advertisements for Cozans' other books. The wrapper design was signed J.H.H., possibly the initials of artist Justin H. Howard. Cozans promoted Little Eva: The Flower of the South as an "Aunt Mary" book, a tactic he used for other books. This was a reference to Mary Low, who adopted Aunt Mary as a pen name to edit a children's version of Uncle Tom's Cabin entitled A Peep into Uncle Tom's Cabin. Despite the packaging, Cozans' book had no connection with Low. Due to a low demand, only three Uncle Tom's Cabin children's adaptationsLittle Eva: The Flower of the South, Pictures and Stories from Uncle Tom's Cabin, and A Peep into Uncle Tom's Cabin were published in the 1850s. Themes Education A prominent theme in the book is education during the slave period in the United States. The portrayal of Little Eva as an educator was first popularized by an illustration in the first edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin. In the image, Little Eva engages in a "a pedagogical exchange with Tom", which displaced the novel's description that he was her "confidant rather than pupil". This idea was further expanded on by children's literature writers, like Cozans, and illustrators. Stowe connected Little Eva with education in a more limited way, by writing how she advised slaves to convert to Christianity and attend Bible readings whenever possible. Unlike Cozans' book, in Uncle Tom's Cabin, Little Eva does not organize classes for slaves. The book presents education through personalism, with a focus on how a "charismatic teacher mediates between the slave and the printed word" and an argument in favor of a "necessity and moral authority of white intervention". Scholars noted that Little Eva is presented as the ideal Southern belle who uses teaching to fulfill the Noblesse oblige concept. The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media posed questions on the book's representation of "southern white girlhood", asking if southern adolescent girls really challenged slavery, the patriarchy, and the "late 19th and 20th century social order". Stance on slavery Scholars have classified Little Eva: The Flower of the South as a proslavery work. Throughout the book, the slaves are shown as "gratefully content", and graphic content from Uncle Tom's Cabin, like the abuse of a young slave girl named Topsy, is absent. American literature professor Deborah C. De Rosa