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PoindexterOglethorpe

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4. In the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Mon Mar 5, 2018, 01:01 PM
Mar 2018

one of the white women in it comments that the slaves are't at all attached to their children. A few pages later the same white woman is very annoyed that one of her slaves is still grieving over her child be sold off to another owner. Stowe, the author, clearly understands the complete disconnect on the part of the white character, cognitive dissonance is probably the better word, and total unwillingness to grant slaves the same feelings and emotions as she has.

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