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zeal,amelodramatic imagination,and one visit of a few days'duration to friendsin Kentucky.This last she was accustomed to refer to in such phrases as\"During my sojourn in the South\"and“As any traveler familiar with theSouth can testify”—plainly implying an acquaintance with the South thatwas both wide and deep.She also declared that God was the actual authorof Uncle Tom's Cabin.One is reminded of Disraeli's remark that he wouldn'tmind Gladstone always producing an ace from his sleeve if he wouldn'tmaintain that God had put it there.  \nMr.Furnas makes an excellent case for the proposition that all the worststereotypes in our conception of the Negro come from Uncle Tom's Cabin.Through the medium of the \"Tom show,\"the book has seeped into ournational consciousness.I myself have never read it,but if you gave it to  \nme in a free-association test,I should be able to answer:“Eliza crossing theice to free soil,carrying her baby and pursued by bloodhounds;pious UncleTom declaring,'My body belong to Marse Legree,but my soul belong toGod,'and being flogged to death;Little Eva dying to slow music;and alittle Negro girl named Topsy,who ‘just growed.'”I imagine that mostpeople could do as well as that;and if,unlike me,you have actually readUncle Tom's Cabin,you might also remember that Little Eva's father,the  \naristocratic planter St.Clare,lived in amansion that would have done credit tothe Count of Monte Cristo,and UncleTom lived in a glass-windowed cabin sur-rounded with flowers;and that Eliza hadbeen separated from her husband,wholike herself was nearly white.Mrs.Stowespecifically says that light-skinned slaveswere the ones who revolt and escape,sincetheir \"proud Anglo-Saxon blood\"wouldnot bear slavery.  \nThat is,the impression we have allderived,more or less,from Uncle Tom'sCabin is that the tragedy of slavery,and ofracism,is a melodramatic business ofbroken families and floggings to death,which are now done away with,thank  \n“The Auction Sale”—an illustration 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