The archetypal villain Simon Legree first appeared in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) as the brutal degenerate who flogs Tom to death.
Who was Simon Legree and where did he come from?
by Pamela Landy · Filed Under: Literature
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