Uncle Tom's Cabin

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I did a quick lesson on UTC on Friday. It was only OK. I try to hit the theme that Stowe was indicting slave owning as a system, not a sin. Her views about women dovetailed with the domestic sphere and Victorian attitudes about family, and the final religious image: Tom as a Black Christ.
 

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For such an influential book at the time does anybody read it anymore? It seems like Upton Sinclair: a book everyone learns about in school, but nobody reads in school.
 

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For such an influential book at the time does anybody read it anymore? It seems like Upton Sinclair: a book everyone learns about in school, but nobody reads in school.

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For such an influential book at the time does anybody read it anymore? It seems like Upton Sinclair: a book everyone learns about in school, but nobody reads in school.
A lot of it is very Victorian. The ending section of the duel of wills between Tom and Simon Legree is still riveting.
 

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This a good short summary of Uncle Tom's cabin he was a hero in the book but not on the stage...

 
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