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"Enslaving you, body and soul": the uses of temperance in Uncle Tom's Cabin and "anti-Tom" fiction.(Critical essay)
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Studies in American Fiction
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March 22, 2008
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A people corrupted by strong drink cannot long be a free people.
--Benjamin Rush, "An Inquiry Into the Effects of Spirituous Liquors"
Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor, in the town of P--, in Kentucky.
--Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
"Let Every Man Mind His Own Business," one of Harriet Beecher Stowe's early short stories, begins with two young, recently-married couples, as three of their number press a lone dissenter, Edward Howard, to sign the temperance pledge. At one point in the belabored conversation, Edward's wife exclaims:
This ...
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