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in Harriet Beecher Stowe's great novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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And then, of course, anti-slavery activists were
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up against the increasingly deep defense of slavery,
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which we've already dealt with.
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They were up against an increasingly highly organized
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and widely written racial theory about black inferiority.
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An anti-slavery impulse in the United States
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was an impulse, a set of ideas,
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that eventually would have to call for some form
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of social revolution, legal revolution,
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and political revolution in a society that did not want it.
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And in a society where increasingly a tremendous amount of wealth was