Find one chapter where the narrator makes a political statement about slavery in the novel:
• What is the narrator saying about the story of Uncle Tom and Eliza? Who is the focus of the chapter? What have they decided to do at this point? What is the narrator saying about the state of America in this portion of the novel?
• What does this mode of address say about the character of the omniscient narrator? What do we know about their politics? Their gender? Their education? Their psyche? What is their role in this very American story?