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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Capital News Today 20110816



i wonder if you can get a brief time line so that we have more of a context when she wrote the book but other things happened like the fugitive slave act, the dred scott decision john brown was causing havoc and so forth. estimate what happened in 1850 s the fugitive slave law which is a closely for a lot because the fugitive slaves when they come to the north if you and capture them and held turn them into the south it is jail and a fine which back then was a lot of money, and it is a really bad thing. she got really mad about that. her sister-in-law you know once you go back and write a novel she says you know i m going to come and she did. and but then what happens however is there are a series of other laws after that. the kansas nebraska act, the dred scott decision which says african-americans can never be free in the united states they have no rights whatsoever and she got not just angry but very honest, very bitter and when she writes her novel another antisla ....

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