Uncle Tom's Cabin | Chapter 9: Summary and Analysis

New Characters:
Senator Bird: a politician who supports the Fugitive Slave Law

Mrs. Bird: the Senator’s pious wife

John Van Trompe: a neighbor of the Birds

Summary
The scene changes to Senator and Mrs. Bird’s home in Ohio. The Senator, a man who possesses “a particularly humane and accessible nature,” has just returned from Washington, D.C. after a period of legislating. Mrs. Bird, a religious woman, questions her husband on the morals of passing the Fugitive Slave Law. She wonders how a supposedly Christian legislature could make...


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