I should add some amplification on this: at the time Uncle Tom's Cabin ((1852) was written many anti-abolitionist novels were written to counter its...
Just a bit more on Butler ~ he was also described in Ch 8 as "swarthy and piratical" looking. In those days as part of the then existing stereotype,...
^Good quote above. But what a remarkable contrast between the famous quality of mercy speech and the ill treatment accorded to poor Shylock. He sure...