Miss Ophelia objected to Eva's expressions of devotion to Uncle Tom.

Her father insists that his daughter shall not be robbed of the free utterance of her high regard, observing that "the child is the only true democrat." There is only one Simon Legree in the book, and he is of New England extraction.

The story is as distinctly intended to inform Northern ignorance and to remove Northern prejudice as it is to justify the conduct of abolitionists.
What was the effect of the publication?
In European countries far removed from local partizan prejudice, it was immediately received as a great revelation of the spirit of liberty.

It was translated into twenty-three different languages.

So devoted were the Italians to the reading of the story that there was earnest effort to suppress its circulation.