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Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe
by Loyal Books
This is Stowe's second book, another one depicting the horrors of southern slavery, published 4 years after Uncle Tom's Cabin and 5 years before the commencement of the Civil War, when new territories wanting admittance into the US , were vying to become slave states, threatening to spread the heinous system. While a work of fiction, the book successfully documents the horrors of the slave system, and depicts how some slaves escaped into the Dismal Swamp , where they often lived for years hiding from their pursuers, often in community. Dred, one of Stowe's most unusual heroic characters, proclaims his mission as follows: ". . .the burden of the Lord is upon me . . . to show unto this people their iniquity, and be a sign unto this evil nation!'" The book depicts that slaves were not all passive victims, as so often portrayed, and had many white sympathizers, but all were caught in the grips of a legal system so stacked against them that nobody could overturn it without threats to life a
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00. Preface
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01. The Mistress of Canema
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02. Clayton
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03. The Clayton Family and Sister Anne
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04. The Gordon Family
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05. Harry and his Wife
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06. The Dilemma
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07. Consultation
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08. Old Tiff
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09. The Death
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10. The Preparation
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11. The Lovers
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12. Explanations
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13. Tom Gordon
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14. Aunt Nesbit's Loss
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15. Mr. Jekyl's Opinions
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16. Milly's Story
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17. Uncle John
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18. Dred
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19. The Conspirators
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20. Summer Talk at Canema
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21. Tiff's Preparations
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22. The Worshippers
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23a. The Camp Meeting
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23b. The Camp Meeting
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24. Life in the Swamps
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25. More Summer Talk
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26. Milly's Return
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27. The Trial
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28. Magnolia Grove
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29. The Troubadour
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30. Tiff's Garden
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31. The Warning
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32. The Morning Star
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33. The Legal Decision
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34. The Cloud Bursts
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35. The Voice in the Wilderness
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36. The Evening Star
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37. The Tie Breaks
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38. The Purpose
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39. The New Mother
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40. The Flight into Egypt
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41. The Clerical Conference
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42. The Result
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43. The Slave's Argument
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44. The Desert
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45. Jegar Sahadutha
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46. Frank Russel's Opinions
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47. Tom Gordon's Plans
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48. Lynch Law
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This is Stowe's second book, another one depicting the horrors of southern slavery, published 4 years after Uncle Tom's Cabin and 5 years before the commencement of the Civil War, when new territories wanting admittance into the US , were vying to become slave states, threatening to spread the heinous system. While a work of fiction, the book successfully documents the horrors of the slave system, and depicts how some slaves escaped into the Dismal Swamp , where they often lived for years hiding from their pursuers, often in community. Dred, one of Stowe's most unusual heroic characters, proclaims his mission as follows: ". . .the burden of the Lord is upon me . . . to show unto this people their iniquity, and be a sign unto this evil nation!'" The book depicts that slaves were not all passive victims, as so often portrayed, and had many white sympathizers, but all were caught in the grips of a legal system so stacked against them that nobody could overturn it without threats to life a
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