{"id":12148,"date":"2025-10-13T20:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T00:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/?page_id=12148"},"modified":"2025-11-05T13:53:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T18:53:31","slug":"amdm2025october14","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/amdm2025\/amdm2025october14\/","title":{"rendered":"October 14th: Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin excerpt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Cold Open<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u9eF3hmr8Yk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Announcements<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/10\/InsideWashington_2026internship.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Inside Washington Seminar<\/a><\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Application Deadline: Friday, 10\/24&#8211;next week<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>January 6 &#8211; 14, 2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Overview of the next few weeks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Plan for the Day<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reaffirming the Value of this Course\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>21st Century Global Citizen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Engaged Critical Thinker vs Apathetic Zombie<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Entrepreneurial Spirit vs Reactive, Overly Cautious Employee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rhetorical Theory (advanced)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rhetoric: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sophistry: Protagoras &amp; Gorgias<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rhetorical Sophist?\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Isocrates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A Lesson on &#8220;informatics&#8221; (the definition)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/informatics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;informatics&#8221; from <em>Merriam-Webster<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oed.com\/dictionary\/informatics_n?tab=meaning_and_use#415994\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;informatics&#8221; from <em>Oxford English Dictionary<\/em><\/a><\/strong> (accessible if signed on to Atkins Library)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Question:<\/strong> Do computers create knowledge?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Harriet Beecher Stowe&#8217;s \u201cIn Which it Appears that a Senator is but a Man\u201d from <em>Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin<\/em> (1852)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Making Connections Among Your Classes<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that we&#8217;re halfway through the semester, it&#8217;s a good idea to take stock of the course. On the surface, it&#8217;s a civics course on foundational American texts. If you&#8217;re not a History, Philosophy, or Political Science major, that surface reading will not satisfy you; you&#8217;ll wonder, &#8220;why am I taking this course when there are more <em>important<\/em> courses?&#8221; This course requires self motivation and recognition of delayed gratification. You can easily put your eyes on the words of these documents, but are you <strong>engaging with them<\/strong>? Just like the video in the &#8220;cold open,&#8221; you might know the answer, but you never understood the question. This class isn&#8217;t about finding answers but learning to ask better questions, which is <strong>an invaluable, AI-proof skill<\/strong>. If you only focus on the answer from somebody else (human or informatic), you won&#8217;t exercise your critical thinking skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s focus on our main texts thus far in the semester. What do these texts tell us that you can&#8217;t get from just knowing the words that construct them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Declaration of Independence<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Constitution\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Bill of Rights<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Amendments 11-27<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Federalist Papers\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>10, 51, 78<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>collectively<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Citizenship in the 21st Century<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard me say that I make no claim that anything I teach will be directly applicable to your future career; however, that doesn&#8217;t mean you won&#8217;t employ critical thinking daily (not just on the job but in your life daily). Therefore, this is relevant to not just your career but your approach to life&#8211;including a career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-regular\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Engaged Critical Thinker<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Apathetic Zombie<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Discovers why (attempts to know why)<\/td><td>Just wants to know the answer, not the process<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Engages to refine or better understand assumptions<\/td><td>Regurgitates<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Thinks of the &#8220;big picture&#8221; and considers perspective<\/td><td>Compartmentalizes using blinders to avoid deep thought<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Entrepreneurial Spirit<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Reactive, Overly Cautious Employee<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Risk taker who creates value (well, attempts to)<\/td><td>Does what they&#8217;re told, masters the system<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Assesses opportunities<\/td><td>Well-defined parameters in which to work (for the boss)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Failure informs one&#8217;s path towards success<\/td><td>Failure is anathema to success<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way, there&#8217;s an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/belkcollege.charlotte.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/undergraduate-academics\/undergraduate-certificate-in-entrepreneurship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship<\/a><\/strong> and even the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/entrepreneurship.charlotte.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Center for Entrepreneurship<\/a><\/strong> and Innovation at UNC Charlotte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Advanced Rhetorical Theory<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We would need multiple semesters to scratch the surface on &#8220;rhetorical theory,&#8221; but I&#8217;m going to focus on a common opposition attributed to Ancient Greece and philosophical training: rhetoric vs sophistry. These definitions are not only up for debate but also can differ (expand) depending on context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Rhetoric<\/strong>: the ability to perceive the available means of persuasion (Aristotle&#8217;s definition)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sophistry<\/strong>: using rhetoric (persuasive techniques) to move audiences often through clever, deception reasoning.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Protagoras<\/strong>: &#8220;Man is the measure of all things&#8221;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Socially constructed knowledge\/interpretation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Relativism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The &#8220;pure&#8221; rhetoricians thought such teaching was immoral<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isocrates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Isocrates<\/a><\/strong> was critical of the sophists but felt students should be trained in the art of rhetoric (&#8220;philosophy&#8221; in his words) but not for unethical purposes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He lived to 98 and was a contemporary of the big three: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>From translators David Mirhady, Terry Papillon, and Yun Lee Too:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;[Isocrates] stresses that his teaching (paideia) is practical and is <strong>aimed at preparing young men broadly as gentlemen<\/strong>\u2026.and is essentially <strong>an education in political leadership<\/strong>, a mechanism for the construction of authority among the traditional elite groups that comprise Isocrates\u2019 ideal pupils&#8221; (3)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;At the core of his teaching was<strong> an aristocratic notion of aret\u0113 (\u2018\u2018virtue, excellence\u2019\u2019)<\/strong>, which could be attained by pursuing philosophy\u2026t<strong>he study and practical application of ethics, politics, and public speaking<\/strong>&#8221; (4).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I bring these figures up because of their significance to the foundations of knowledge in Western Civilization. Facts don&#8217;t speak for themselves: someone presents the &#8220;facts&#8221; is specific ways. Consider these:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Biased interpretation\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>See <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@dmukherjeetextiles\/bias-in-data-with-examples-8322e36a884b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;confirmation bias&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Age-appropriate material and level\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.knowyourh2o.com\/indoor-4\/organic-chemistry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Organic Chemistry college-level reading<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onetimethrough.com\/water-pollution-for-kids-fun-science-activities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elementary School Lesson<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Technical jargon that beclouds an audience&#8217;s understanding\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accessdata.fda.gov\/drugsatfda_docs\/label\/2019\/020702s073lbl.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Fine print&#8221; of medication warnings<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Did we discuss the &#8220;informatics&#8221; thing yet?<a name=\"Stowe\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Harriet Beecher Stowe&#8217;s Excerpt from from <em>Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin<\/em> (1852)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I asked you to read Ch. 9 &#8220;In Which it Appears that a Senator is but a Man&#8221; from this famous novel. Here&#8217;s a little background on Harriet Beecher Stowe and her novel:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Prolific author and Abolitionist from Connecticut<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lived next door to Mark Twain<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Met Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War in 1862\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Legend has it that Lincoln said, upon meeting her, &#8220;so you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Don&#8217;t confuse her with the author of <em>Little Women<\/em>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisa_May_Alcott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Louisa May Alcott<\/a><\/strong>, who&#8217;s buried in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sleepy_Hollow_Cemetery_(Concord,_Massachusetts)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sleepy Hollow Cemetery<\/a> (quite spooky this time of year, but &#8220;The Legend of Sleepy Hollow&#8221; is set in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sleepy_Hollow,_New_York\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sleepy Hollow, New York<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Originally serialized in a newspaper, <em>Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin<\/em> was a bestseller in 1852 and again after the Civil War started\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;Known in its day for being the second best selling of a book after <em>The Bible<\/em>&#8221; (DiMaggio 15)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>She was hated in the South, but, interestingly, moved to Florida for a bit after the war\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Is Florida the South?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Rhetoric of Chapter 9 of <em>Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On occasion, I pretend to be a real English professor and discuss literature and stuff. Much has been said about <em>Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin<\/em>, but we&#8217;ll focus on Ch. 9&#8217;s presentation of slavery. Here are some questions to get us started:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What appears to be the relationship between Senator Bird and his wife, Mary?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What are some of Mary&#8217;s (Mrs. Bird&#8217;s) daily duties?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What do you notice about the language of the novel? How do the characters speak?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some quotations to consider. All page numbers refer to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/utc.iath.virginia.edu\/uncletom\/utfihbsa9t.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the UVA digital edition<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>p. 119: &#8220;&#8230;frolicsome juveniles, who were effervescing in all those modes of untold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/gambol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gambol<\/a> and mischief that have astonished mothers ever since the flood.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 120: &#8220;&#8230;it was a very unusual thing for gentle little Mrs. Bird ever to trouble her head with what was going on in the house of the state&#8230;&#8221;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t give a fig for all your politics, generally, but I think this is something downright cruel and <strong>unchristian<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Senator Bird: &#8220;&#8230;our brethren in Kentucky are very strongly excited, and <strong>it seems necessary, and no more than Christian and kind<\/strong>, that something should be done by our state to <strong>quiet the excitement<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 121: &#8220;Mrs. Bird was a timid, blushing little woman, of about four feet in height&#8230;she ruled more by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/entreaty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">entreaty<\/a> and persuasion than by command or argument&#8230;.[however,] anything in the shape of cruelty would throw her into a passion&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 122: &#8220;&#8221;You ought to be ashamed, John! Poor, homeless, houseless creatures! It&#8217;s a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I&#8217;ll break it, for one, the first time I get a chance&#8230;&#8221;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Senator Bird: &#8220;&#8230;dear, we mustn&#8217;t suffer our feelings to run away with our judgment; you must consider it&#8217;s not a matter of private feeling,\u2014<strong>there are great public interests involved<\/strong>,\u2014there is <strong>such a state of public agitation rising<\/strong>, that we must put aside our private feelings.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Now, John, I don&#8217;t know anything about politics, but I can read <strong>my Bible<\/strong>&#8230;and <strong>that Bible I mean to follow<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;&#8221;Obeying God never brings on public evils.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 123: &#8220;Duty, John! don&#8217;t use that word! You know it isn&#8217;t a duty\u2014it can&#8217;t be a duty! If folks want to keep their slaves from running away, let &#8217;em treat &#8217;em well&#8230;.I tell you <strong>folks don&#8217;t run away when they are happy<\/strong>.&#8221;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What&#8217;s her persuasive technique here? What argument might she (Mary and Stowe) be countering?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 124: &#8220;With many gentle and womanly offices&#8230;in time, rendered more calm.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 128: Eliza asks, &#8220;Ma&#8217;am,&#8221; she said, suddenly, &#8220;have you ever lost a child?&#8221;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;I have lost two&#8230;I had only this one left.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;&#8230;they were going to take him away from me,\u2014to <em>sell<\/em> him,\u2014sell him down south, ma&#8217;am, to go all alone,\u2014<strong>a baby that had never been away from his mother in his life!<\/strong>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What&#8217;s the reader going to feel when they read this?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 129: &#8220;Because he was a kind master&#8230;and my mistress was kind; but they couldn&#8217;t help themselves. <strong>They were owing money<\/strong>&#8230;that a man had a hold on them, and they were obliged to give him his will.&#8221;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Who else sold slaves because of debt?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 130: Eliza&#8217;s husband &#8220;&#8230;belongs to another man. His master is real hard to him&#8230;and he threatens to sell him down south&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 132: Mary says, &#8220;Your heart is better than your head, in this case, John.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 133: &#8220;<strong>And oh! mother that reads this<\/strong>, has there never been in your house a drawer, or a closet, the opening of which has been to you like the opening again of a little grave? Ah! happy mother that you are, if it has not been so.&#8221;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What&#8217;s the effect of speaking directly to the reader?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 134: &#8220;What a situation, now, <strong>for a patriotic senator<\/strong>, that had been all the week before spurring up the legislature of his native state to pass more stringent resolutions against escaping fugitives, their harborers and abettors!&#8221;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Is there some irony here?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;&#8230;<strong>his idea of a fugitive was only an idea of the letters that spell the word<\/strong>,\u2014or at the most, the image of a little newspaper picture of a man with a stick and bundle, with &#8220;Ran away from the subscriber&#8221; under it.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"background-color:yellow\">Directly appeals to Southerners,<\/span> &#8220;Ah, good brother! is it fair for you to expect of us services which <strong>your own brave, honorable heart would not allow you to render, were you in our place?<\/strong>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 139: Commenting on Eliza, Van Trompe says, &#8220;Why, this is an uncommon handsome un,&#8221; he said to the senator. &#8220;Ah, well; <strong>handsome uns has the greatest cause to run<\/strong>, sometimes, if they has any kind o&#8217; feelin, <strong>such as decent women should<\/strong>. I know all about that.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p. 140: Van Trompe claims, &#8220;I never jined the church till I found a minister that was up to &#8217;em all in Greek and all that, and he said right the contrary; and then I took right hold, and jined the church,\u2014I did now, fact.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He wouldn&#8217;t join a church that supported slavery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Next Class<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll be covering the rest of , so be ready for that. Then, we&#8217;ll move on to Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s &#8220;The Emancipation Proclamation&#8221; (1863). Don&#8217;t forget to do <strong>Weekly Discussion Post #6<\/strong> before Friday, 10\/17, 11:07pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Work Cited<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DiMaggio, Kenneth. &#8220;Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin: Global Best Seller, Anti-slave Narrative, Imperialist Agenda.&#8221;&nbsp;<em>The Global Studies Journal<\/em>, vol. 7, no. 1, 2014, pp. 15-23. DOI: 10.18848\/1835-4432\/CGP\/46892<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mirhady, David, Terry Papillon, and Yun Lee Too. &#8220;Introduction to Isocrates.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/muse-jhu-edu.eu1.proxy.openathens.net\/book\/14900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><em>Isocrates I<\/em>.<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;Trans. David C. Mirhady &amp; Yun Lee Too. 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