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The Shameful History of Buying and Selling Human Beings
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Harriet Beecher Stowe published her novel ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ in 1852, nine years before the American Civil War erupted over the rights of the white-skinned population in the southern states to buy and sell slaves. Beecher Stowe records in painful detail the misery Tom felt when he was sold separately from his wife and little children and how he escaped, bringing him to the attention of the law. The book was an immediate bestseller and helped to change public opinion in the northern states and across the world about the evils of slavery.
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