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TIL there was a literary subgenre in the 1850s dubbed "Anti-Tom literature" created in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The books would attempt to justify slavery and paint blacks as being content in servitude.

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