Most controversial at one time was the response many pro-slavery writers had against Uncle Tom's Cabin. Pro-slavery politicians saw Stowe's novels, as Reynolds stated, “as an explosive device that threatened to tear the nation apart” (152). The controversial novel created by Stowe solicited a response from the perspective of slave owners, who they believed had been misclassified according to the novel. Which later brought forth the competing novel Uncle Tom's Cabin which was Cannibals all! by George Fitzhugh. Fitzhugh used tactics similar to those Stowe had previously used to demonstrate the immorality of slavery, but instead argued that slaves were “better off than any free laboring population in the world” (159). Stowe's Dred was also like a response to Fitzhugh's novel which began to feel like a literary war between writers. Reynolds did an exceptional job in his book providing perspectives from both the antislavery and proslavery perspectives. Help audiences recognize controversies and mixed emotions Uncle Tom's Cabin, Dred and Cannibals all! brought on all Americans during the