"As he died to make men holy, Let us die to make men free.

"Tom was a Christ figure. Like Jesus he suffered agony inflicted by evil secular power. Like Jesus he died for the sins of humankind in order to save the oppressors as well as his own people. Stowe's readers lived in an age that understood this message better than ours." After reading those sentences by McPherson, I better understood why Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to fight the Fugitive Slave Law. She understood her responsibility, we need to better understand ours!