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  • IMAGES
        Look at and think about the images under these links: The Anti-Slavery Record; The Slave's Friend; Picture of Slavery; and the "Amalgamation Series"

  • Read these two selections by Lydia Maria Child:
        From An Appeal: Preface, Chapters 5 and 8
        The Quadroons

  • From Stowe's Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Chapters 4 and 6
        If you want, compare what Stowe says in these chapters about (and what she quotes from) the slave narratives of Lewis Clarke, Frederick Douglass, and Josiah Henson with the originals by using these links (the UTC site's SEARCH ENGINE can help you locate passages Stowe cites).

  • American Slavery As It Is [ALSO OPTIONAL]
        Theodore Weld's 1839 book, though not a "best seller," was probably the best known abolitonist representation of slavery before Uncle Tom's Cabin appeared. And as Stowe reveals in the Key, she consulted it while writing the novel. If you want to take a look at it for yourself, feel free to use the link here to do so.

  • ABOLITION HOMEPAGE [ALSO OPTIONAL]
        If you want to see more on Anti-Slavery, help yourself.


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