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| | African Americans - Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, June 5, 1851 |
 | | Uncle Tom's Cabin was often produced as a play, so that many people who did not read the book saw it as a powerful stage drama. |
 | | Simon Legree, Toms master, had purchased slaves at one place and another, in New Orleans, to the number of eight, and driven them, handcuffed, in couples of two and two, down to the good steamer Pirate, which lay at the levee, ready for a trip up the Red River. |
 | | Legree now turned to Toms trunk, which, previous to this, he had been ransacking, and, taking from it a pair of old pantaloons and a dilapidated coat, which Tom had been wont to put on about his stable-work, he said, liberating Toms hands from the handcuffs, and pointing to a recess in among the boxes, |
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