A review by birdybutt24
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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James Baldwin said that Uncle Tom's Cabin was "a very bad novel," claiming that it was overly sentimental, and this betrayed its "aversion to experience." As such it is "the signal of secret and violent inhumanity, the mask of cruelty," in its dependence on its "description of brutality." I agree with his argument that the book fails to address why white people would engage in such violent acts. I also found its religious sentiments really tough to swallow.