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The ongoing debate over the cultural meaning and value of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin attests to the novel's rhetorical complexity; because Stowe engages and uses a wide range of contemporary arguments on questions of race and gender, it is possible to connect the novel to multiple and divergent political movements and rhetorical traditions.
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subsequent quotations from the novel, domestic rhetoric, slave characters, sentimental representation, antebellum women, slavery debate, antislavery novel, millennial vision, domestic ideology
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Uncle Tom's Cabin, George Harris, Jonathan Edwards, Harriet Beecher Stowe, African Americans, Simon Legree, Lyman Beecher, New England, Ann Douglas, Master George, Frederick Douglass, George Shelby, Senator Bird, Fugitive Slave Law, Tom Loker, Aunt Chloe, Civil War, Old Testament, Rachel Halliday, New Testament, Young Wife, Catharine Beecher, James Baldwin, Miss Ophelia, Sensational Designs
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