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Illustration from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, c. 1870. Stowe’s antislavery novel was first published in 1852. In this scene, “Mas’r George” has come to give Tom an illegal reading and writing lesson.
In what ways are reading and writing subversive activities, both in this scene from Stowe’s novel and in Douglass’s narrative?
HIP/Art Resource, NY