Thomas Nelson Page's "No Haid Pawn": the gothic horror of the southern plantation

Abstract

The stories included in In Ole Virginia have been traditionally regarded by critics as the epitome of plantation fiction since they have been read as the recreation of a dead civilization generating mythical qualities. However, "No Haid Pawn", a tale told by a white man, sheds light on a new facet of Thomas Nelson Page as a postwar Virginian and a southern writer, as well as on his views about what slavery really meant for the Old South.