Critics pointed out that Stowe had never been to the South, but her novel became a bestseller in the North (banned in the South) and the most effective bit of propaganda to come out of the abolitionist movement. It galvanized many who had been sitting on the sidelines.
blue law. 1. any puritanical law that forbids certain practices, especially drinking or working on Sunday, dancing, etc.
Home. Legislation (or âstatutory lawâ) is law which has been produce by a governing body in order to regulate, to authorise, to sanction, to grant, to declare or to restrict.