than the inferior race, the superior:
The scenes of this story . . . lie among a race hitherto ignored . . . ; an exotic race, whose ancestors, born beneath a tropic sun, brought with them, and perpetuated to their descendants, a character so essentially unlike the hard and dominant Anglo-Saxon race, as for many years to have won from it only misunderstanding and contempt (Stowe 1).
This passage suggests that blacks are gentle and cooperative people who are far more aligned with Christian values than are the white men who proclaim those values. Even more radically, Stowe in the next paragraph declares that the purpose of art is
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