Diddie, Dumps & Tot Cover

Diddie, Dumps, and Tot, or Plantation Child-Life (1882) is the best known book by Perry County Louise Clarke Pyrnelle. Although popular, her children's books romanticized the institution of slavery and promoted the "Lost Cause" view of the Civil War.

Cover of Diddie, Dumps and Tot, an Alabama children's novel
Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress
Cover of Diddie, Dumps and Tot, an Alabama children's novel