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To: Hulka

Of all the books I have read I have never read that one. I will pick up a copy in the next day or two.


4 posted on 11/21/2015 1:48:16 PM PST by BBell
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To: BBell
Uncle Tom is beaten to death by his owner because he refuses to give info on runaway slaves. The left can't even get that right.
7 posted on 11/21/2015 1:59:38 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: BBell

I read it a year or two ago and was moved to tears repeatedly.

I do realize the novel was written as a motivator (or, we might call it propaganda) to convince the nation that the Democrat party was wrong for supporting slavery...but it was also, I understand, not too far from the truth.

The story is told along several lines, but there is a true and distinct line between slave owners who treated their slaves in a caring manner (though still as property) and those slave owners who treated their slaves as mere chattel.

The sadness in the book is profound. But worth the time...and shows the institution of slavery (as practiced in the European colonies and their progeny—I do not speak of the ancient economic system) was indeed a wicked one.


13 posted on 11/21/2015 3:06:19 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: BBell

Will be worth it.


16 posted on 11/21/2015 4:57:05 PM PST by Hulka
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