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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 45"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XLV Concluding Remarks The writer has often been inquired of, by correspondents from different parts of the country, whether this narrative is a true one; and to these inquiries she will give one general an...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 44"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XLIV The Liberator George Shelby had written to his mother merely a line, stating the day that she might expect him home. Of the death scene of his old friend he had not the heart to write. He had tried sev...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 43"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XLIII Results The rest of our story is soon told. George Shelby, interested, as any other young man might be, by the romance of the incident, no less than by feelings of humanity, was at the pains to send t...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 42"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XLII An Authentic Ghost Story For some remarkable reason, ghostly legends were uncommonly rife, about this time, among the servants on Legree's place. It was whisperingly asserted that footsteps, in the de...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 41"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XLI The Young Master Two days after, a young man drove a light wagon up through the avenue of China trees, and, throwing the reins hastily on the horse's neck, sprang out and inquired for the owner of the p...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 40"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XL The Martyr "Deem not the just by Heaven forgot! Though life its common gifts deny, - Though, with a crushed and bleeding heart, And spurned of man, he goes to die! For God hath marked each sorrowing day,...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 39"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XXXIX The Stratagem "The way of the wicked is as darkness; he knoweth not at what he stumbleth."(Prov. 4:19). The garret of the house that Legree occupied, like most other garrets, was a great, desolate sp...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 38"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XXXVIII The Victory "Thanks be unto God, who giveth us the victory."(I Cor. 15:57). Have not many of us, in the weary way of life, felt, in some hours, how far easier it were to die than to live? The mart...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 37"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XXXVII Liberty "No matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery, the moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the God sink together in the dust, and he...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 36"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XXXVI Emmeline and Cassy Cassy entered the room, and found Emmeline sitting, pale with fear, in the furthest corner of it. As she came in, the girl started up nervously; but, on seeing who it was, rushed fo...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 35"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XXXV The Tokens "And slight, withal, may be the things that bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside forever; it may be a sound, A flower, the wind, the ocean, which shall wound, - Stri...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 34"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XXXIV The Quadroon's Story And behold the tears of such as are oppressed; and on the side of their oppressors there was power. Wherefore I praised the dead that are already dead more than the living that ar...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 33"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XXXIII Cassy "And behold, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter."(ECCL. 4:1) It took but a short tim...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 32"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XXXII Dark Places "The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations Of cruelty."(Ps. 74:20) Trailing wearily behind a rude wagon, and over a ruder road, Tom and his associates faced onward. In the...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 31"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XXXI The Middle Passage "Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look upon iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devour...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 30"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XXX The Slave Warehouse A slave warehouse! Perhaps some of my readers conjure up horrible visions of such a place. They fancy some foul, obscure den, some horrible Tartarus "informis, ingens, cui lumen adem...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 29"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XXIX The Unprotected We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for no creature on God's earth is left more utterly unprotected and desolate tha...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 28"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XXVIII Reunion Week after week glided away in the St. Clare mansion, and the waves of life settled back to their usual flow, where that little bark had gone down. For how imperiously, how coolly, in disrega...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 27"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XXVII "This Is the Last of Earth" ("This is the last of Earth! I am content," last words of John Quincy Adams, uttered February 21, 1848.) The statuettes and pictures in Eva's room were shrouded in white n...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 26"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XXVI Death Weep not for those whom the veil of the tomb, In life's early morning, hath hid from our eyes. ("Weep Not for Those," a poem by Thomas Moore (1779-1852).) Eva's bed-room was a spacious apartmen...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 25"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XXV The Little Evangelist It was Sunday afternoon. St. Clare was stretched on a bamboo lounge in the verandah, solacing himself with a cigar. Marie lay reclined on a sofa, opposite the window opening on the...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 24"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XXIV Foreshadowings Two days after this, Alfred St. Clare and Augustine parted; and Eva, who had been stimulated, by the society of her young cousin, to exertions beyond her strength, began to fail rapidly....

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 23"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XXIII Henrique About this time, St. Clare's brother Alfred, with his eldest son, a boy of twelve, spent a day or two with the family at the lake. No sight could be more singular and beautiful than that of...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 22"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XXII "The Grass Withereth - the Flower Fadeth" Life passes, with us all, a day at a time; so it passed with our friend Tom, till two years were gone. Though parted from all his soul held dear, and though of...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 21"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XXI Kentuck Our readers may not be unwilling to glance back, for a brief interval, at Uncle Tom's Cabin, on the Kentucky farm, and see what has been transpiring among those whom he had left behind. It was...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 20"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XX Topsy One morning, while Miss Ophelia was busy in some of her domestic cares, St. Clare's voice was heard, calling her at the foot of the stairs. "Come down here, Cousin, I've something to show you." "...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 19"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XIX Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions Continued "Tom, you needn't get me the horses. I don't want to go," she said. "Why not, Miss Eva?" "These things sink into my heart, Tom," said Eva, - "they sin...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 18"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XVIII Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions Our friend Tom, in his own simple musings, often compared his more fortunate lot, in the bondage into which he was cast, with that of Joseph in Egypt; and, in f...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 17"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XVII The Freeman's Defence There was a gentle bustle at the Quaker house, as the afternoon drew to a close. Rachel Halliday moved quietly to and fro, collecting from her household stores such needments as c...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 16"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XVI Tom's Mistress and Her Opinions "And now, Marie," said St. Clare, "your golden days are dawning. Here is our practical, business-like New England cousin, who will take the whole budget of cares off your...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 15"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XV Of Tom's New Master, and Various Other Matters Since the thread of our humble hero's life has now become interwoven with that of higher ones, it is necessary to give some brief introduction to them. Aug...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 14"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XIII The Quaker Settlement A quiet scene now rises before us. A large, roomy, neatly-painted kitchen, its yellow floor glossy and smooth, and without a particle of dust; a neat, well-blacked cooking-stove;...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 13"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XIII The Quaker Settlement A quiet scene now rises before us. A large, roomy, neatly-painted kitchen, its yellow floor glossy and smooth, and without a particle of dust; a neat, well-blacked cooking-stove;...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 12"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XII Select Incident of Lawful Trade "In Ramah there was a voice heard, - weeping, and lamentation, and great mourning; Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted."(Jer. 31:15). Mr. Haley a...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 11"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER XI In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind It was late in a drizzly afternoon that a traveler alighted at the door of a small country hotel, in the village of N - - , in Kentucky. In the barro...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 10"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER X The Property Is Carried Off The February morning looked gray and drizzling through the window of Uncle Tom's cabin. It looked on downcast faces, the images of mournful hearts. The little table stood out b...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 9"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER IX In Which It Appears That a Senator Is But a Man The light of the cheerful fire shone on the rug and carpet of a cosey parlor, and glittered on the sides of the tea-cups and well-brightened tea-pot, as Se...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 8"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER VIII Eliza's Escape Eliza made her desperate retreat across the river just in the dusk of twilight. The gray mist of evening, rising slowly from the river, enveloped her as she disappeared up the bank, and...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter7"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER VII The Mother's Struggle It is impossible to conceive of a human creature more wholly desolate and forlorn than Eliza, when she turned her footsteps from Uncle Tom's cabin. Her husband's suffering and dan...

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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin-Chapter 6"

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By Harriet Beecher Stowe CHAPTER VI Discovery Mr. and Mrs. Shelby, after their protracted discussion of the night before, did not readily sink to repose, and, in consequence, slept somewhat later than usual, the ensuing morning. "I wonder...

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