What is a Capitalist?

Capitalists are just a group of executors of the will of capital.

Doug Claydon had just disembarked from a small private dock and arrived at the headquarters of the American Press Group, home to the editorial office of The New Haven Times.

He came here to meet a man, a woman.

A woman named Harriet Beecher Stowe, of course, the vast majority of people refer to this woman as Mrs. Stowe.

Mrs. Stowe was a family member, and Doug was not interested in anything else, the only one of which was her anti-slavery novel, which she published in 1852.

This book, when it was first released, caused some sensation, and even the ideas in it were often used in the reports of the American newspaper group eight years later.

However, later, for various reasons, the book called "Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Life of a Lowly Man" did sell less and less.

What Doug wanted to talk to Mrs. Stowe about was how to continue the story of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" so that more people, even those who could not read, would know and agree with the ideas in it.

However, before we get into it, let's take a little insight into what the story of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" looks like:

Arthur Shelby, a farmer who started in Kentucky, is facing the prospect of losing his land due to debt.

Despite the kindness he and his wife (Emily Shelby) were to their slaves, Shelby decided to sell several slaves to slavers to raise the money he desperately needed.

Two slaves were sold: Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children, and Harry, the son of Emily's maid, Eliza.

Emily didn't like the idea, as she had promised her maid that her son would never be sold, and Emily's son, George Shelby, was reluctant to let Tom go, as he saw him as his mentor and friend.

When Eliza overhears a conversation between the Shelbys and their intention to sell Tom to Harry, Eliza decides to run away with her son.

Eliza did not make this decision because of physical abuse, she had lost two children due to miscarriages, and she feared losing her only surviving child.

She set off in the middle of the night and left a note of apology to her hostess.

When this all happened, Uncle Tom was sold and loaded onto a riverboat that was going down the Mississippi River.

While on the boat, Tom met and cared for a young white girl, Eva.

When Eva falls into the river, it is Tom who saves her. Eva thanked him, and Eva's father, Augustine St. Clair, bought Tom from a slave trader and brought him to his home in New Orleans.

During this time, Tom and Eva became close because they both believed in Christianity.

While Eliza is on the run, she stumbles upon her husband, George Harris, who has fled before her, and they decide to go to Canada.

However, they are targeted by a slave hunter named Tom Locke.

In the end, Rock and his accomplices ensnared Eliza and her family, which led to George being forced to shoot Locke.

Fearing Locke's death, Eliza persuaded George to send the slave hunter to a nearby Quaker settlement for treatment.

Upon his return to New Orleans, St. Clair had an argument with his northern cousin, Ophelia, over a different view of slavery.

Ophelia was opposed to slavery but was prejudiced against blacks, while St. Clair believed that he had no such prejudices, even though he was a slave owner.

To show his cousin that her views of blacks were wrong, St. Clair bought a black girl, Topsey, and asked Ophelia to educate him.

After two years of living with Tom and St. Clair, Eva became seriously ill.

Before she died, she dreamed of heaven in a dream, which she told to the people around her.

As a result of Eva's death and her dreams, the others decide to change their lives: Ophelia decides to abandon her old prejudices against black people, Topsey says she will work hard to improve herself, and St. Clair promises to give Tom freedom.

Before St. Clair could fulfill his promise, he was stabbed to death with a hunting knife for intervening in a fight.

St. Clair's wife refused to fulfill her husband's promise to sell Tom to a vicious farmer, Simon Legree, who took Tom to rural Louisiana at an auction.

It was here that Tom met Legree's other slaves, including Emmeline.

When Tom refuses to obey Legree's orders to whip his fellow slaves, Legree begins to develop a dislike for him.

Tom is brutally scourged, and Legree is determined to crush Tom's faith in God.

But Tom refused to stop reading the Bible and did his best to comfort the other slaves.

While on the plantation, Tom met Cathy, another of Legree's slaves.

Cathy had been forcibly separated from her children when she was auctioned, and she killed her third child because she could not bear the pain of another being betrayed.

At this time, Tom Locke returns to the story.

After being healed by the Quakers, Locke was transformed.

George, Eliza, and Tom were freed after entering Canada. And in Louisiana, when Uncle Tom's faith in God was about to be shattered by the torture he suffered on the plantation, he experienced two dreams—one of Jesus and the other of Eva—that made him determined to keep his faith in Christ until his death.

He encourages Cathy to run away and asks her to take Emmeline with her. When Tom refuses to tell Legree where Cathy and Emmeline are fleeing, Legree orders his overseer to kill Tom.

As he lay dying, Tom forgave the brutal beating of two overseers: both of them were inspired by their character to convert to Christ. Before Tom dies, George Shelby shows up to buy Tom's freedom back, only to find out that it's too late.

On the boat ride to freedom, Cathy and Emmeline meet George Harris's sister and travel with her to Canada.

At one point, Cathy discovered that Eliza was her long-lost daughter. And now that they're finally reunited, they travel to France and eventually arrive in Liberia, an African country that houses former American slaves.

There, they meet Cathy's long-lost son again. George Shelby returned to his farm in Kentucky, freed all his slaves, and told them to remember Tom's sacrifice and his faith in the true righteousness of Christ.

This is the end of the story.

Although Doug didn't really appreciate the story, it didn't prevent him from adapting it in order to maximize profits.

"Hello Mrs. Stowe, I have had the pleasure of reading your Uncle Tom's Cabin, and I want to meet you. I finally see you today, your writing is excellent, but there are not so many people who can read.

And now, the evil reactionary plantation owners of the South are using all their power to rebel against the righteous North.

Our North is superior to them in weapons, in numbers.

However, I don't think that's enough.

We need to defeat them on the other front, the cultural front.

So, the American Press Group, wants to get your permission.

Please allow the American Press Group to transform "Uncle Tom's Cabin" into a play in all its forms.

Let those who can't read books understand the story of "Uncle Tom's Cabin".

Let more people know about the evils of those slave owners in the South. ”

Mrs. Stowe was a post-10 born in 1811.

Born into a family of pastors in Connecticut.

Because her father was a famous priest, she was bathed in various religious theories since she was a child, and her faith was undoubtedly very religious.

And by the time she was twenty years old, she began to write.

When she was thirty years old, she began to write "Uncle Tom's Cabin" because of the influence of public opinion.

She was and is a devout believer, a supporter of the abolition of slavery.

And now in her early fifties, she looked kindly at young Doug and listened to his chatter.

She was so kind, not because she was a kind person, but because of Doug's identity - a student of Principal Woolsey.

As a school founded on the basis of the Puritans, Yale School has been distinguished from other schools among believers since its inception.

And as a student of the principal, in a sense, he represents the recognition of Yale Academy, and even the entire Connecticut religious community, and even the vast majority of the religious community in the New England region.

And this is one of the reasons why Doug was able to rise so quickly.

Many times, there is a desire to achieve something.

It's not about how many people support you, it's about who hates you.

In a widely religious society, no one rejected and resisted Doug's rise that made him rise so quickly.

Even, Doug thought that his rise was a little too fast.

Mrs. Stowe waited for Doug to speak, "God bless, my child. I haven't seen that old fellow in Woolsey in a long time, is he okay?"

Mrs. Stowe did not wait for Doug to answer, but asked herself, "I think I should be alive and well." You said you were going to tell me that Uncle Tom's Cabin would be adapted into a screenplay and interpreted in other ways.

I don't object to that at all.

However, there is a small problem with this.

The copyright to Uncle Tom's Cabin is not in my hands, but in the hands of the National Times, John Loser Publishing, and seven other publishing houses.

I support your adaptation of mine, but they don't know.

Those guys, if they think that your adaptation will reduce the sales of their books, they probably won't agree. ”

"Is that one of these companies?" asked Doug as he pulled out a piece of paper.

Mrs. Ster, putting on her reading glasses, looked at them with her arms outstretched, and said, "Yes, they are." ”

"If that's them...... Then there is no problem.

Because...... I've already bought them. Doug said.

"You bought them all?!" said Mrs. Stowe, with some shock.

In this era, she can also be regarded as the top 1% of the richest people in the United States.

After all, her books have sold more than five million copies worldwide.

But even if she was rich, her money might at best buy a publishing company later.

And now, in one go, Doug has sold all the American publishing companies that own the rights to "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

That's really ......

"Actually, you don't have to buy them all," said Mrs. Sturt, "and if you really want to change, I can fight them on your side......"

If so, it would be a desecration of your book, a desecration of the great cause of the emancipation of the black slaves, or even ......

My teacher once said to me, 'If you want to do something, you have to do your best.'" ’

And what I want to do now is to make your account known to more people in other forms. ”

"What a good boy!" Mrs. Sturt listened to Doug's straightforward words, and suddenly felt tears welling up in her eyes, she took off her reading glasses, wiped the corners of her eyes, and said, "Son, if you need help, I will definitely help you do it!"

"You don't have to do anything out of your mind, you just have to do it like you used to. ”

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A month later, President Lincoln met Mrs. Stowe, who jokingly said, "It was you, a little woman, who thanked a book for a great war." ”

A month and a half later, a play on the theme of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" began to be performed in New England.

Two months later, Uncle Tom's Cabin began touring the front-line troops.

Three months later, those dark-skinned people who had been slaves were able to see Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Some of them looked wooden at first, but suddenly cried when they looked at it.

Frontline reporters from the American Press Group recorded the scene with their cameras, and the New Haven Times was the first to publish a story called "Uncle Tom in the World."

Subsequently, more than 40 newspapers affiliated with the American newspaper group reprinted it.

At the same time, the sales of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" also began to increase.

300,000, 500,000, 1,000,000.

Although, I don't know how many people can read a thick book.

However, the American Press Group announced that "Uncle Tom's Cabin" has exceeded one million sales in the United States.

At the same time, the capital markets began to study Doug's behavior.

It was highly touted that he had acquired the rights to Uncle Tom's Cabin ahead of schedule.

It's just that while the light is shining, there are also dark shadows flickering.