SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
UNCLE TOMS CABIN
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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To make a lot of money
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To fuel amnesty between the north and south
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To start the Civil War
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To help share the opinion that slavery is wrong
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Detailed explanation-1: -Enslaved people had many reasons to desire to read and to write. A literate slave could forge passes or free papers and these could aid a slave to escape. In fact, enslaved people forged free papers so frequently that free blacks with bona fide legal documents were often suspected of forging them. after Emancipation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, edited by David Blight (1845; Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2002) or any edition. Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave (1855).
Detailed explanation-3: -Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is a unique historical fiction novel which portrays life during the American Civil War. In this story, Harriet Beecher Stowe tells the tale of Uncle Tom, along with several other slaves, and their journey through the wretchedness of slavery.