AMERICAN LITERATURE
ELIZABETHAN ERA
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Georgia
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Florida
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Louisiana
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Vermont
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Detailed explanation-1: -Tom is taken to rural Louisiana with other new slaves including Emmeline, whom Simon Legree has purchased to use as a sex slave.
Detailed explanation-2: -A cruel master, hateful of religion, superstitious, and determined to “break” Tom, Simon Legree is the novel’s antagonist. His plantation near the Red River is characterized by its state of physical and moral disrepair.
Detailed explanation-3: -On a winter afternoon in the early 1850s, two white men, Shelby and Haley, discuss business in Shelby’s dining room on a Kentucky farm. Shelby is preparing to sell two slaves to Haley, a slave-trader: Someone named Tom, a capable, honest, Christian, is one.
Detailed explanation-4: -Simon Legree, fictional character, the principal villain in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s antislavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1851–52).