English

Evelyn Wood

3 January, 17:00

Read the excerpt below and then answer the question that follows.

"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 - so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil - so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery." - Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

Based on this excerpt all of the following statements about Uncle Tom's Cabin are true except:

a.

It is pro-slavery.

b.

It is anti-slavery.

c.

It states that it is impossible to make slavery beautiful.

d.

It states that slaves are human beings with beating hearts.