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Uncle Tom's Cabin Research Paper

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Harriet Beecher Stowe's 19th century novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, gives an unimaginable knowledge into the slavery that was practiced throughout America during the Civil War. During this time southerners would buy and sell slaves to use for slave labor to produce crops. One crop that was highly demanded was cotton, because after Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin cotton became king. Only a few Southerners actually owned slaves and treated them like people. The other Southerners treated their slaves worse than dogs and worked their fingers to the bone. Although slavery was illegal in the Northern states, only a few Northerners actively opposed it. In the beginning of the novel the story takes place on the Shelby plantation in Kentucky and has

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