... law denied a jury trial to the alleged fugitives. Antislavery forces found their more persuasive appeal not in the Fugitive Slave Act but in the fictional drama of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Slavery, through Stowe's eyes, subjected its victims either to callous brutality or, at the hands of spendthrift masters, to the indignity of bankruptcy. In 1852 Democrat Franklin Pierce of ... , while the Democrat party was splitting. Douglas was running for a part of the Northern Democrats, John C. Breckinridge for the Southern Democrats and John Bell for the Constitutional U...

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... literature follow certain conventions: "[The work] expound[s] a branch of theoretical or practical knowledge, or present[s] in an impressive and persuasive imaginative form, a moral, religious or philosophical thesis or doctrine [Turner 39]. That Walker's work is persuasive is clear from historical records. For written evidence shows that "The Appeal" provided a shot in the arm to the abolitionist movement, for according to Turner ... literature. Consequently, it is Walker's work alone that emerges as the mantra of the enslaved, so that it is he and not Harriet Beecher-Stowe, the white ...

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