In excerpt 3, from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s (Chapter 9), the scene begins in the home of Ohio Senator Mr.Bird and his wife Mrs.Bird. The senator has just arrived and his wife is serving him tea when his wife Mary asks him about the senate. Mr. Bird then tells Mrs. Bird that a new law was passed restricting citizens from aiding slaves on the run. As Mrs. Bird should have, she placed her religious beliefs above the state's law. "No, nonsense! I wouldn't give a fig for all your politics, generally, but I think this is something downright cruel and unchristian. I hope, my dear, no such law has been passed...You ought to be ashamed, John! Poor, homeless, houseless creatures! It's a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I'll break it,
