African-American studies scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., explains the slave narrative in these terms: The Black slave narrators sought to indict both those who enslaved them and the meta- physical system drawn upon to justify their enslavement. ... American slave women were encouraged to graphically describe the sexual abuse they suffered to evoke sympathy. ...

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Before the Civil War, America was plagued with a complicated social quandary that incorporated individual, societal, political, economic, and religious principles. ... In a psychological context, Stowe may have intentionally created characters whom readers want to identify with and emulate like wise, angelic Eva or respectable, benevolent Mr. ...

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