Uncle Tom's Cabin

In the book Uncle Tom's Cabin Stowe frequently breaks away from the story, in an aside, to speak directly to the reader find and example of an aside in this chapter.

In chapter 1 of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin Stowe frequently breaks away from the story, in an aside, to speak directly to the reader find and example of an aside in this chapter.

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"Whoever visits some estates there, and witnesses the good-humored indulgence of some masters and mistresses, and the affectionate loyalty of some slaves, might be tempted to dream the oft-fabled poetic legend of a patriarchal institution, and all that; but over and above the scene there broods a portentous shadow—the shadow of law. So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to a master..." Chapter 1