Au Contraire! Thank you for committing to doing all the BC and PL work for this project.msfry wrote: ↑August 29th, 2018, 6:38 am 37 and 38 are PL OK. You do those southern accents well, Mr. Bill, especially for a Yankee! Stowe talks a lot about the Edmondson family in her Life and Letters and the part her minister brother Henry Ward Beecher played in raising the money to purchase their freedom, but this chapter gives even more detailed information. Thank you for taking on these long sections.
The central event in this 2-part chapter is the celebrations in Washington D.C. when the news of the French Revolution became known. The populace entered into a "Mob Cognitive Dissonance". They heard and applauded the assertion of eternal brotherhood and equality of all men, but when it came to their attention that their slaves had listened to the politicians' speeches, believed them and took that as a clue that they could escape, they were incensed and incredulous.