Abolitionism in America

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Nicholas Brimblecomb. Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Ruins: Triumphant Defence of Slavery! In a series of letters to Harriet Beecher Stowe. Boston: Charles Waite, 1853.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin in Ruins
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Brimblecomb’s book completely opposed Stowe’s characterization of slavery and its upholders. The author’s premise was that slaves were property, and that no one had the right to interfere with another person’s property. He used arguments based on Biblical doctrine to support his premise. Brimblecomb believed in black inferiority, in the benevolence of the slave trade, and in the idea of slavery as a source of national pride.

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