I hope, my dear, no such law has been passed.” “No, nonsense! I wouldn’t give a fig for all your politics, generally, but I think this is something downright cruel and unchristian. “Why, Mary, you are getting to be a politician, all at once.” “Well but is it true that they have been passing a law forbidding people to give meat and drink to those poor colored folks that come along? I heard they were talking of some such law, but I didn’t think any Christian legislature would pass it!” Bird, therefore, opened his eyes in surprise, and said, Bird ever to trouble her head with what was going on in the house of the state, very wisely considering that she had enough to do to mind her own. Now, it was a very unusual thing for gentle little Mrs. “Well,” said his wife, after the business of the tea-table was getting rather slack, “and what have they been doing in the Senate?” In this passage, a senator and his wife debate the Fugitive Slave Law. The book became a sensation and helped move antislavery into everyday conversation for many northerners. Sales for Uncle Tom’s Cabin were astronomical, eclipsed only by sales of the Bible. In 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe published her bestselling antislavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
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