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.

In the following essay, Levine explores Stowe's use of African American sources in Dred and her acknowledgement of those influences on her writing.

In the following essay, DeLombard discusses Stowe's treatment of the legal system's silencing of black testimony as well as the limitations of white advocacy on their behalf.

In the following essay, Smith discusses Stowe's treatment in Dred of a wide variety of possible interpretations of sacred and political texts based on gender, race, and class.

In the following essay, Hamilton explores Stowe's use of the structure and rhetoric associated with temperance literature in her antislavery novel.

In the following review, the anonymous critic discusses Dred as both a novel and an antislavery polemic.

In the following essay, Boyd maintains that Stowe's novel is profoundly pessimistic regarding the possibility of abolishing slavery in a nonviolent way.

In the following essay, Sajé explores Stowe's comparison of the treatment of women to the treatment of slaves in Dred.

In the following essay, Crozier discusses Stowe's treatment of Harry Gordon as a character torn between the desire for vengeance represented by Dred and the call for Christian patience and love represented by Milly.

In the following essay, Rowe examines Stowe's criticism of sentimental white sympathy for the plight of the slave in the absence of a specific program of social and political reform.

In the following essay, Whitney claims that in Dred, Stowe abandons the sentimentality of her earlier novel in favor of a realistic treatment of the legal issues surrounding the slave system.