Uncle Tom's Cabin

Lew Rockwell ^ | 12/16/03 | Gail Jarvis

[PeaRidge]

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[js1138]

Her goal was not to write the great American novel, but, like Charles Dickens, create sympathy for members of an underclass of society, slaves.

LOL. Who reads the "great" novels and who reads Dickens? Great novels are forced on students, while ordinary people still pick up Dickens, Tolkein and Twain.

[reed_inthe_wind]

Just curious. When did the "Missouri Compromise" get renamed "the compromise". I am asking because revisionists have made me very suspicious.

[4CJ]

People who disagree with me often claim that my historical views do not conform with "modern" interpretations.

I'll take the truth over a "modern" interpretation.

[Blzbba]

Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Warrant
Just for the record let's get the story straight
Me and Uncle Tom were fishin' it was gettin' pretty late
Out on a cypress limb above the wishin' well
Where they say is got no bottom, say it take you down to Hell
Over in the bushes and off to the right
Come two men talking in the pale moonlight
Sheriff John Brady and Deputiy Hedge
Haulin' two limp bodies down to the water's edge

I know a secret down at Uncle Tom's cabin oh yea
I know a secret that I just can't tell


They didn't see me and Tom in the tree
Neither one believin' what the other could see
Tossed in the bodies let 'em sink on down
To the bottom of the well
Where'd they never be found

I know a secret down at Uncle Tom's cabin oh yea
I know a secret that I just can't tell
I know a secret down at Uncle Tom's cabin
I Know a secret that I just can't tell
I know a secret down at Uncle Tom's cabin
Know who put the bodies in the wishin' well

(Guitar Solo)
Soon as they were gone me and Tom got down
Prayin' real hard that we wouldn't make a sound
Runnin through the woods back to Uncle Tom' shack
Where the full moon shines throught the roof tile cracks
Oh my God Tom who are we gonna tell
The sheriff belongs in a prison cell
Keep your mouth shut that's what we're gonna do
Unless you wanna wind up in the wishin' well too.

I know a secret down at Uncle Tom's cabin
I know a secret that I just can't tell
I know a secret down at Uncle Tom's cabin
I know a secret that I just can't tell
I know a secret down at Uncle Tom's cabin
Know who put the bodies, know who put the bodies in the wishin' well

[billbears]

Although an Abolitionist, Stowe belonged to the "gradual emancipation" school. She believed that slaves must receive at least a basic education before being freed. And she insisted that they be converted to Christianity. After these two conditions were met, they should be recolonized to Africa.

Except for the colonization to Africa, not an opinion that one could say was held by ol 'root, pig or perish' himself

[danneskjold]

He knows who put the bodies in the wising well:

[Welsh Rabbit]

I'm going to pretend I have no idea what you're referring to... LOL!

[danneskjold]

come on now...we were all young(er) once...

[cyborg]

Oh what a shame that people should feel sorry for slaves. Lew Rockwell sputum.

[freekitty]

I understand one of the required reading today is "Hannabil".

I ask you, what has this book got to do with history? Also, one of the kids did not know why he was even reading this book?

[MizzouTigerRepublican]

Please no more pictures of Jani Lane! It is bringing back thoughts of those awful cassette tapes I used to buy of all the "hair" bands.

[4CJ]

Except for the colonization to Africa, not an opinion that one could say was held by ol 'root, pig or perish' himself

Careful, you'll tick off the "Saint" Lincoln crowd.

[Non-Sequitur]

If it were not for partial quotes you sothron types would have no quotes at all.

"To you, generous, noble-minded men and women, of the South, -- you, whose virtue, and magnanimity and purity of character, are the greater for the severer trial it has encountered, -- to you is her appeal. Have you not, in your own secret souls, in your own private conversings, felt that there are woes and evils, in this accursed system, far beyond what are here shadowed, or can be shadowed?"

And the answer was, of course, no. The vast, overwhelming majority of southerners saw nothing wrong with slavery. At best they saw it as a necessary evil. At worst their views were the same as Jefferson Davis' who said, "We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's Law in nature tells us to recognize him - our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude. Freedom only injures the slave. The innate stamp of inferiority is beyond the reach of change. You cannot transform the negro into anything one-tenth as useful or as good as what slavery enables him to be."

Slavery made the south what is was. Slavery was an institution that almost all southerners felt would be passed on to their children and their grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Slavery was so important to the south that it was worth beginning a rebellion over, worth starting a war over. The believed in it, prospered from it, and their answer to Ms. Stowe would have been a resounding "Hell, no!"

[cyborg]

Hair bands... did you ever have banana clips?

[Non-Sequitur]

Careful, you'll tick off the "Saint" Lincoln crowd.

Not hardly.

[PeaRidge]

Well into the war, Lincoln would say,

"Root, hog, or die" ….

Lincoln's suggestion to illiterate and property less ex-slaves unprepared for freedom, (Feb. 3, 1865).

[cyborg]

Thus implying that a slave couldn't learn anything I suppose :-( Well he didn't learn from the British who put that into practice in their former colonies, esp. the ones with slavery (like Jamaica).

I'm not a hang him high Lincoln hater, but I'm no fan of him either.

[PeaRidge]

She can answer your inquiry.

"Do you say that the people of the free states have nothing to do with it? The people of the free states have defended, encouraged, and participated; and are more guilty for it, before God, than the South.

"There are multitudes of slaves temporarily owned, and sold again, by merchants in Northern cities; and shall the whole guilt or obloquy of slavery fall only on the South?

"Northern men, Northern mothers, Northern Christians, have something more to do than denounce their brethren at the South; they have to look to the evil among themselves."

Harriette Beecher Stowe