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  • Mrs. Stowe did not hit the sorest spot. She makes Legree a bachelor.

    - Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut
    Diary entry, 26  Aug, recording the conversation of a group of southern white womenon the subject of men and slavery. The reference is to the principal slaveholder in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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