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Felicia In Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Felicia, Mrs. Shelby was a strong and intelligent character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" she does rules her household based off her beliefs and morals and the book shows her husband accepting her rule. Because the cultural mindset at the time was that women were only capable of raising children and running the household. They were considered inferior to men and not as intelligent. You notice this when Mrs. asks to help her husband with the plantation finances and he replies, "O, ridiculous, Emily! You are the finest woman in Kentucky; but still you haven't to know that you don't understand business; -- women never do, and never can... You don't know anything about business, I tell you"(Stowe, 372).

In “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, Stowe brings to light women
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