Which of the following statements about the novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, is TRUE?
a. It became the most sensational and best-selling book of the 19th Century
b. It was the only work Harriet Beecher Stowe published
c. the hero of the story was a magnanimous slave owner named Simon Legree
d. Its pro-slavery message maintained that Southern Slavery was more humane than the working conditions of the Industrialized North
Ans: a. It became the most sensational and best-selling book of the 19th Century
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