Endnotes
1. Harriet Beecher Stowe, A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (New York: Arno, 1968) 242.
2. Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, in Harriet Beecher Stowe: Three Novels (New York: Library of America, 1982) 9.
3. "Fugitive Slave Law" in The Reader's Companion to American History, Eric Foner and John Garraty, eds. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991) 432, 433. See also "Compromise of 1850," 209–210.
4. Henry Mayer, All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1998) 407.
5. Gregg Crane, Race, Citizenship and Law in American Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2002) 12, 13. Crane shows multiple roots for the concept of a "higher law" in the Bible, philosophy and politics (18–32). It was invoked early in American history; for example, the Revolution's slogan that "rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."
6. Ibid., 15.
7. Ibid., 13.
8. Stowe, UTC, 101
9. Ibid., 110
10. Stowe to Duchess of Argyle, Feb. 19, 1866. Quoted in Charles Edward Stowe, Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Compiled from her Letters and Journals (Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, 2002) 394–97.
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Journal of Lutheran Ethics
Volume 11, Issue 2