Southern Literary Messenger

John M. Daniel, Review of Poe s Works (Southern Literary Messenger, March 1850), in Ouvrages73, pp. 64-65. 

Proslavery tracts, such as James Kirke Paulding s Slavery in the United States and William Drayton s The South Vindicated From the Treason of Fanaticism of the Northern Abolitionisists, both reviewed in the Southern Literary Messenger (April 1836) while Poe was editor and written by authors... 

The Southern Literary Messenger, for instance, reviewed works critical of slavery such as Harriet Martineau s Society in America (3 [November 1837] 641—657), and noticed other antislavery texts, including Lydia Maria Childs, Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans (i [July 1835] 651). 

Kennedy recommends that Poe begin contributing to the Southern Literary Messenger and encourages its proprietor, Thomas W. White, to hire Poe in an editorial capacity. 

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