John P. Jewett Quotes
After a careful examination I concluded that the story would not only repay the cost of publication in book form, but would yield some profit. Possibly I was helped to that conclusion by my firm conviction that the volume would prove a strong anti-slavery document.
John P. Jewett, *, Book Publisher, Co-Founder, The Anti Slavery Society & Publisher of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Explanation of his reasons for publishing Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Interview with William Henry Forman, The Manhattan, January 1883
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As a key member of Lincoln’s cabinet, William H. Seward was most concerned with preserving The Union. However, since the Constitution was written in 1787, there had been compromises made with the pro slavery forces of the South to give them proportionally more political power and to avoid interfering with the institution of slavery. The Dred Scott Supreme Court decision forced the Northern States to actively cooperate in enforcing and maintaining slavery. Large numbers of abolitionists had reached their limit and wanted no more compromises regarding slavery. Mrs. Seward was one of those. This quotation also illustrates the influence that some women had in politics even though women could not vote. Frances Seward was very much a political partner with her husband who was favored to beat Lincoln for the Republican Presidential nomination.
The National Enquirer was originally a serious abolitionist newspaper, not the sensationalist tabloid it became in modern times.
Lincoln presciently wrote this statement in 1858, for he would be assassinated on April 14, 1865, eight months prior to the final ratification of the 13th Amendment.
During the 1830’s the debate over whether the British Empire should abolish slavery was revived and caused much unrest, It illustrates the total incompatibility between slavery and literacy & education.
The intimidation in the South regarding slavery was the equal of that of the worst dictatorships and theocracies such as Nazi Germany and Arab Countries of the early 21st Century.
John Punchard Jewett (1814–1884) was a Boston publisher, best known for first publishing Uncle Tom's Cabin in book form in 1852.
