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Uncle Tom's Cabin Abolitionism

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Being an abolitionist was a dangerous life to lead, these people were sometimes protested against in the North, and, if they made the decision to go into the South, they would be lucky to make it out alive. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in response to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, which allowed slave owners to reacquire their “property” from a free state with no process of law. This work of fiction soon became one of the best-known, controversial, and enduring pieces of literature in American
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