An Ohio Senator and his wife. Senator Bird has recently argued for the passage of a bill making it a crime to aid escaping slaves. Mrs. Bird believes this bill is immoral, and is cheered to discover her husband is more than willing to help Eliza and Harry as they pass through Ohio en route to Canada.
Senator and Mrs. Bird Quotes in Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Chapter 9
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You ought to be ashamed, John! Poor, homeless, houseless creatures! It’s a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I’ll break it, for one, the first time I get a chance . . . .
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Senator and Mrs. Bird Character Timeline in Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Chapter 9: In Which It Appears That a Senator is but a Man
An Ohio state Senator named Bird is at home with his wife and children; he has recently been away...
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Mrs. Bird asks her husband what he would do if an escaped slave came to their home,...
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Eliza begins telling her story. The Birds reveal that they have recently lost a child, and Mrs. Bird, the children, and a...
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Beecher Stowe claims that the Senator only knew fugitive slaves in the abstract, thus allowing him to argue for the passage...
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...never joined a church till he found one that understood slavery as explicitly immoral. The Senator places Eliza and Harry in Van Trompe’s care, then leaves for Columbus in order to...
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