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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:
Harriet Beecher Stowe published the best-selling antislavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, in 1852. She wrote this book to show that slavery was evil and that the Fugitive Slave Law was unjust. Many Northerners viewed slavery as wrong. Abolitionists wanted to end slavery and some helped slaves escape to the North and Canada. The Southerner's believed that they were stealing their property.
Mrs. Webb's reading of Uncle Tom's Cabin was reviewed in Boston's The Liberator on December 15, 1855.
| "Mrs. Webb read to an audience of 1300 persons. We trust that the story of 'Uncle Tom' may find access to thousands of hearts, and so hasten the day when the millions of whom he is the representative shall shake off the fetters (chains) of cruel bondage, and stand erect in the dignity of that freedom ." |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
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1. What did Harriet Beecher Stowe write about in Uncle Tom's Cabin?
2. Did many people read Uncle Tom's Cabin? Explain your answer.
3. What effect did Uncle Tom's Cabin have in the North? How did it make
people feel
about slavery?
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