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By Harriet Beecher Stowe
And is America safe? Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.
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- Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, vol. II (1852), 1852 · Vol. II, Chapter XLV, "Concluding Remarks", p. 321
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- Internet Archive (Rosenstock First Editions collection scan of vol. II of the 1852 two-volume edition, Boston: John P. Jewett & Company; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington)
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From Chapter XLV, "Concluding Remarks", of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1852, vol. II). The author speaks in her own voice, not through a character.