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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

[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!"

[RightWhale]

Might be interesting to take a poll of who has actually read UTC. It was a phenomenal best seller at the time, and is still in print.

[A CA Guy]

The author of the article is a total jerk.

[stainlessbanner]

bttt

[thatdewd]

"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."

Innumerable threads on FR are proof that is still unlikely to happen. And it's been a looooong time.

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[JoeSchem]

Harriet Beecher Stowe knew perfectly well that southern slaves were abused by southerners. It's just that she was trying not to antagonize the slavemasters, believing that would result in harsher treatment of the slaves. Her attempt to disentangle southern independence from the Peculiar Institution failed. This was inevitable, since the 'Southern Way of Life' -- plantations, sipping mint juleps on the porch while the darkies crooned in the fields -- was economically unsustainable without slavery.

The same nitwits over at Lewrockwell.com (we're in Year 3 of the Y2K crisis, according to them) also insist that Lincoln was pro-slavery because he pledged to keep the Union intact rather than abolish slavery. Lincoln made that pledge because he knew that he couldn't get elected otherwise, and if the South left the Union, then all hope of freeing the slaves would be lost for generations to come.

[nopardons]

BTT

[Fledermaus]

Some of the worst forms of racism I've ever seen or noticed was never living my life in the South, but in visiting places like Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Toledo, Cincinatti, etc.

The first ten years of my life were spent in the 60's living in Southern California. For two years we lived in a suburb of LA and the racism against blacks, Jews, the Polish, and the Asians in our area was awful. My DEMOCRAT parents and grandparents used words like "nigger, hymie, pollack and slanty-eyed bastards" all the time.

Just think how surprised I was at 18 when I informed my parents I voted Republican and then in 1980 for Reagan. They said I was voting for the party of bigots.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

"So is this the little lady who made this big war?" - reported as Lincoln's greeting on meeting HBS.