ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Fugitive Slave Law prompts Mrs. Bird to discuss politics. 2. She calls it a “shameful, wicked, abominable law.”

Detailed explanation-2: -Bird is a stand-in for Stowe herself, who felt greater sympathy for the plight of slave mothers because she lost a child.

Detailed explanation-3: -Uncle Tom’s Cabin was part of a large body of anti-slavery writing. Stowe borrowed from books by enslaved people including Josiah Henson, Lewis Clarke, and Solomon Northup. As a white woman, Stowe was seen as less threatening to white readers than Black abolitionists, helping her novel reach more readers.