| Nineteenth-century American author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), a groundbreaking novel that stimulated tremendous antislavery sentiment in the United States. In the book, Stowe provided dramatic examples of the evils of slavery and showed how the institution of slavery corrupts otherwise kind slave holders. In this excerpt from Uncle Tom's Cabin (recited by an actor), St. Claire, a Louisiana slave holder, responds to his cousin Ophelia, a Northerner, who has just upbraided him about the abuses of slavery. St. Claire unleashes this passionate outburst about slavery, but claims he lacks the courage to free his own slaves and instead treats them with as much compassion and humanity as possible. |
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