Clare in the story. "The same thing is
working, in Europe, in England, and in this country." There was
no sectional hostility in Mrs. Stowe's heart. "The people of the
free states have defended, encouraged, and participated [in
slavery]; and are more guilty for it, before God, than the South,
in that they have NOT the apology of education or custom. If the
mothers of the free states had all felt as they should in times
past, the sons of the free states would not have been the
holders, and proverbially the hardest masters, of slaves; the
sons of the free states would not have connived at the extension
of slavery in our national body." "Your book is going to be the
great pacificator," wrote a friend of Mrs. Stowe; "it will unite
North and South." But the distinctly Christian and fraternal
intention of the book was swiftly forgotten in the storm of
controversy that followed its appearance. It had been written
hastily, fervidly, in the intervals of domestic toil at
Brunswick, had been printed as a serial in "The National Era"
without attracting much attention, and was issued in book form in
March, 1852.
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