The Ebony Idol is one of several pro-slavery novels written in the Southern United States in response to the 1852 abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
The majority of these works, such as Aunt Phillis's Cabin (1852) and The Planter's Northern Bride (1854) attacked Stowe for her allegedly inaccurate depiction of slavery, and in turn would make criticisms of abolitionists like Stowe in their works [REF].