SOURCE: Grant, David. “Stowe's Dred and the Narrative Logic of Slavery's Extension.” Studies in American Fiction 28, no. 2 (autumn 2000): 151-73.
In the following essay, Grant maintains that Stowe's novel was written in an effort to secure a victory for the Republican party in the election of 1856.
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