One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
There’s no happy ending ... Nevertheless, we might well say that is exactly Harriet Beecher Stowe’s point. In 1852 slavery had not been abolished. Slaves were still on the plantations and many of them...
Accepting Uncle Tom’s Cabin as revelation second only to the Bible, the Yankee women all wanted to know about the bloodhounds which every Southerner kept to track down runaway slaves. And they never b...
I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people'sglass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.