On the anti-slavery imagination

Harriet Beecher Stowe, who, of course, wrote the book that Lincoln called the book that caused the Great War, was moved by her faith to translate her anti-slavery feelings into a fictional narrative that she hoped would have a major impact upon people’s view of slavery, that would humanise it, would allow people to imagine what it would be like to be a slave. And indeed, she succeeded masterfully in that with Uncle Tom’s Cabin.