Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
a. dramatized the wickedness of slavery.
b. was prompted by passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
c. drew on her extensive personal experience with slavery.
d. was frequently compared to Dostoyevski's The Brothers Karamazov.
e. portrayed blacks as militant resisters to slavery.
Answer: a. dramatized the wickedness of slavery.
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