The Only Use of
Uncle Tom's Cabin
in
Gone with the Wind
- Accepting Uncle Tom's Cabin as revelation second only to the Bible, the Yankee women all wanted to know about the bloodhounds which every Southerner kept to track down runaway slaves.†
Chpt 4.38
Definition:
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(Uncle Tom's Cabin) Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel that energized the anti-slavery movement prior to the U.S. Civil War and which was the most popular book of the 19th century (1852)