Middle latitudes Middle latitudes The middle latitudes (also called the mid-latitudes, sometimes midlatitudes, or moderate latitudes) of Earth lie between 23°26'22" and 66°33'39" north, and between 23°26'22" and 66°33'39" south. They include Earth's subtropical and temperate zones, which lie between the tropics and the polar circles (between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle, and between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle). Weather fronts and extratropical cyclones are usually found in this area, as well as occasional tropical cyclones, which have traveled from their areas of formation closer to the Equator. The prevailing winds in the middle latitudes are
The North and the South; or, Slavery and Its Contrasts The North and the South; or, Slavery and Its Contrasts The North and the South; or, Slavery and Its Contrasts is an 1852 plantation fiction novel by Caroline Rush, and among the first examples of the genre, alongside others such as "Aunt Phillis's Cabin" by Mary Henderson Eastman and "Life at the South; or, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" As It Is" by W.L.G. Smith, both of which were also released in 1852. "The North and the South" was one of several examples of the pro-slavery plantation literature genre that emerged from the Southern United States in response to "Uncle Tom's Cabin"