4. Myth: If my heart rate is normal, my blood pressure is fine. Sometimes your heart rate and your blood pressure go hand in hand. For example, when you exercise, or get angry or scared, they both go up. But they're not always linked. If your heart rate is normal, your blood pressure may not be.
In A Nutshell. Harriet Beecher Stowe âs inspiration for Uncle Tomâs Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which made aiding or assisting runaway slaves a crime in free states. Uncle Tomâs Cabin, which was first published in 1852, is thus a deliberate and carefully written anti-slavery argument. Sure, itâs a novel, but donât forget that itâs also a sermon intended to convince a Christian audience that slavery is an evil institution and must be destroyed.
âThe Lord Himself wrote it,â she used to say afterwards. âI was but an instrument in His hand.â. The book made Mrs Stowe an international celebrity and a hated figure in the South. In 1853 she published A Key to Uncle Tomâs Cabin, a non-fiction riposte to critics who accused her of exaggerating slaveryâs cruelties. On a tour of Britain she made friends among the great and good, was cheered at anti-slavery meetings and collected ample donations for the cause.