Home › Authors › Mary Howard Schoolcraft 👤 Mary Howard Schoolcraft b. 1820 – d. 1878 · 2 books Biography American writer, the author of the controversial pro-slavery novel, The Black Gauntlet: A Tale of Plantation Life in South Carolina. She was the second wife of geographer, geologist and ethnologist Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. Books by Mary Howard Schoolcraft The black gauntlet 1860 Letters on the condition of the African race in the United States 1852