Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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"their own rights"? The Confederacy in particualr wanted "their own right" to establish slavery in the territories and their claimed "right" to prohibit free states from granting freedom to persons within their own borders. Do you dispute that these Southern states so concerned with state's rights pushed through the Fugitive Slave Act which required under penalty of law that my ancestors in New Jersey give aid to slave trackers and boutny humters? What about new jersey's rights?
It's been decades since I read "Uncle Tom's Cabin". I recall it as a very hard read, which, again from my recollection, is not unusual for works from this period.
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As such, I think its objective is not so much literary as it is political. As such, from a literary point of view, characters and dramatic tension are sometimes oversimplified, though they remain aptly compelling and so serve the novel's purpose.
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*But when I Googled to find the quote, I learned that there's no historical documentation to support the story.
**The author was diminutive in stature, so IF this was the phrasing (if it occurred at all), Mr. Lincoln was not being patronizing.
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*But when I Googled to find the quote, I learned that there's no historical documentation to support the story.
**The author was diminutive in stature, so IF this was the phrasing (if it occurred at all), Mr. Lincoln was not being patronizing.
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To the person who read it when they were young; I was the same. When I re-read it a couple months ago I realized how much I had missed and not understood. Re-read it as an adult
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