Background
William Alexander Caruthers was born in 1802 in Rockbridge County, Virginia.
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William Caruthers
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He was educated at Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) and later in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Career
In 2837 he moved to Savannah, Georgia, where he resided until his death in 1846. Caruthers" first novel, The Kentuckian In New York, published in 1834, is important for expressing skepticism about slavery, as well as arguing that termination was impractical at that point. The novel includes a subplot about a narrowly avoided slave revolt, which was likely influenced by National Turner"s rebellion.
Some cr a short inclusion of a letter by a slave in Arabic as influencing a similar subplot in Edgar Allan Poe"s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.
His later and somewhat better known works include The Cavaliers of Virginia, or the Recluse of Jamestown and The Knights of the Horse Shoe.
