Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote her novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, in 1852. It was an immediate success and became the bestselling novel in the 1800s. Stowe’s novel is a sharp criticism of slavery. It energized the abolitionist movement, which was trying to outlaw slavery. In this passage from Chapter XI, George, a slave, has escaped and meets with Mr. Wilson, a man he had once worked for.
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