Last Friday, we dug further into the topic of slavery, while focusing on the new Fugitive Slave law that was passed in 1850. We read an except from Harriet Beecher Stowe's, "Uncle Tom's Cabin." This was a revolutionary piece, that revamped abolitionism in the north.
Today, we once again looked at Stowe's piece and discussed what was happening in the scene and also, how the new law was effecting the whites. The slave catcher's job was to capture the slave in a way that would still allow them to work. On the opposite side of things, the new law made indirect assistance to slaves illegal and punishable by jail time and heavy fines.The whites were instilled with fear which in turn made them turn their backs on the slaves. It was a heavy time of conflict, but Stowe's novel helped re-energize the campaign to abolish slavery.
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