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.
[Refresher on the law of segregation] The law of segregation states that each gamete (sperm or egg cell) made by an organism will get just one of the two gene copies present in a parent organism, and that the gene copies are randomly allocated to the gametes.