Before the Civil War, America was plagued with a complicated social quandary that incorporated individual, societal, political, economic, and religious principles. ... Its authorship included Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beacher Stowe who dually challenged the legitimacy of slavery in their literature. ... Her construction of enslavement proves beneficial because it has a hint of romanticism which downplays the brutality of southern life. ...

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