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In "Uncle Tom's Cabin" a few slave-owners are of different types - sympathetic yet corrupted Arthur Shelby, aloof and cynical St. Clare, and a cruel tormentor in Simon Legree. Is this how abolitionists viewed slave owners as having these viewpoints where some may realize the evils of slavery?

by /u/Paulie_Gatto in /r/AskHistorians

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