In the 1830s, the number of antislavery societies in the North almost tripled in response to the

Question

A. efforts to censor abolitionist mail.

B. violent race riot that occurred in Philadelphia.

C. publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

D. lynching of Elijah Lovejoy.

Answer 1

C. publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Uncle Tom's Cabin is probably the most influential work of fiction in American history. This Christian epic turned millions of Americans against slavery, bringing the "peculiar institution" immeasurably closer to its destruction.

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