ever suffer through a reading of uncle tom's cabin for school? or maybe you enjoyed it. either way, on this day in 1851, Harriet Beecher Stow revealed a bit of the US's slavery world she portrayed with the publishing of the first installment of the book in The National Era, an abolitionist paper.
i want to say media and the US should be thankful for the progress we've made in censorship that allowed such revealing works to enter the public, but really ... with president bush's men watching our every move, imus being kicked off the air (i don't support the use of his language, however if you're going to pay a man million of dollars to speak those words, don't fire him when someone gets offended) and so many politically incorrect words that writers need a thesaurus for the pc ones ... i'm not sure i feel comfortable claiming that.
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