"'It's a free country, sir; the man's mine, and I do what I please with him.'... So spoke Mr. Haley... and now, scorning all by-ways, he openly purchased his human chattels in the public market of New Orleans." — Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852
Stowe's novel built upon which earlier antebellum reform tradition?
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The Second Great Awakening's evangelical moral reform impulse
- B
The mercantilist economic philosophy of Henry Clay's American System
- C
Federalist support for a strong central government
- D
Jacksonian celebration of the common man and Indian removal
Explanation
Stowe, daughter of a prominent evangelical minister, drew on the Second Great Awakening's moral reform energy that fueled abolitionism, temperance, and other antebellum benevolent movements.