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The words That Changed A Nation
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Daily life for a slave involved back-breaking labor.
Slaves on cotton plantations worked from first light until nightfall
They were allowed only enough rest as was needed to keep them alive and able to work
Some slaves were allowed to have families but that was only because their children would become slaves as well.
According to the video, what was a slave’s life like?
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miserable desperate tolerable
blessed inhuman
According to the video, what was a slave’s life like?
unsufferable
doomed
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In the 19th century, the only book to outsell Uncle Tom’s Cabin was the Bible. When Stowe visited President Lincoln at the White House in 1862, he is reported to have said, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.” This statement, regardless of its truth, testifies to Uncle Tom’s Cabin’s impact.
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