nov 18, 1852 - Harriet Beacher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin
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While being transported by boat to a slave auction in New Orleans, the protagonist, a saintly, dignified slave named Uncle Tom, saves the life of Little Eva St. Clare, whose grateful father then purchases Tom. Little Eva and Tom soon become great friends. Always frail, Eva’s health begins to decline rapidly, and on her deathbed, she asks her father to free all his slaves. Mr. St. Clare makes plans to manumit his slaves but is killed before he can do so, and the brutal Simon Legree, Tom’s new owner, has Tom whipped to death after he refuses to divulge the whereabouts of certain runaway slaves.
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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 14 Nov. 2011. school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/Uncle-Toms-Cabin/487016. Accessed 19 Jan. 2018.
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