CRITICAL COMMENTARY:  I chose James Baldwin’s Everybody’s Protest Novel; On page 533, he writes that Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a very bad novel stating that Ms. Stowe’s motivation for writing the book was to say slavery was wrong. Baldwin also goes on to say that her characters lacked depth and the stronger ones like Chloe and Topsy are largely dismissed. I don’t disagree with these criticisms but as a whole I felt this novel was important for whites to read and reassess slavery on a more human level. At the time, this novel was shocking and heart wrenching. The last paragraph talks about the terror and damnation of religion or more aptly called “theological terror.”