What is a capitalist?

Capitalists are just executors of capital will.

Doug Clayden had just got off the boat and came from the private pier to the headquarters of the U.S. Newspaper Group, which is the location of the editorial department of the New Haven Times.

He came here to meet a person and a woman.

A woman named Harriet Beecher Stowe, of course, most people call this woman Mrs. Stowe.

Mrs. Stowe was a novelist. Doug was not interested in her other novels. The only thing she was interested in was the anti-slavery novel she published in 1852.

This novel caused some sensation when it was just released, and even the views in it were often used in reports by the American Press Group eight years later.

However, later, for various reasons, the sales volume of this novel, called "Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Life of the Lower People", was indeed getting lower and lower.

What Doug wanted to talk to her when he saw Mrs. Stow, he was how to continue to carry forward the story in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" so that more people, even those who are illiterate, know and agree with the views in it.

However, before doing the specific operation, we need to know a little bit about the plot story of "Uncle Tom's Cabin":

The novel begins with Kentucky farmer Arthur Shelby facing the dilemma of losing his land due to debt.

Although he and her wife (Emily Shelby) treat their slaves very kindly, Shelby decides to sell several slaves to slave traders to raise his much-needed funds.

There were two slaves sold: one was Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with his wife and children; the other was Harry, the son of Eliza, Emily's maid.

Emily didn't like this idea because she once promised her maid that her son would never be sold; and Emily's son George Shelby was unwilling to let Tom leave because he regarded Tom as his mentor and friend.

When Eliza overheard the conversation between the Shelby and his wife planning to sell Tom and Harry, Eliza decides to run away with her son.

Eliza made this decision not because of physical abuse. She had lost two children due to miscarriage, and she was afraid of losing her only surviving child again.

She set off late at night and left a note of apology to her hostess.

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

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

When Eva fell into the river, Tom saved her. To thank him, Eva's father Augustine St. Clair bought Tom from the slave trader and took Tom to his home in New Orleans.

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

On Eliza's escape, she accidentally met her husband, George Harris, who escaped before her, and they decided to go to Canada.

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

Finally, Locke and his accomplices trapped Eliza and her family, which led to George being forced to shoot at Locke.

Eliza, worried about Locke's death, convinces George to send the slave hunter to a nearby Quaker settlement for treatment.

After returning to New Orleans, St. Clair had a fight with his northern cousin Ophelia over his different insights into slavery.

Ophelia opposed slavery, but was prejudiced against black people; however, St. Clair believed that he had no such prejudice, even if he was a slave owner himself.

To explain to his cousin that her view on black people was wrong, St. Clair bought a black girl, Topsey and asked Ophelia to educate Topsey.

After Tom and St. Clair lived for two years, Eva fell seriously ill.

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

Due to Eva's death and her dreams, others decided to change their lives: Ophelia decided to abandon her former prejudice against black people, Topsey said she would work hard to perfect herself, and St. Clair promised to give Tom freedom.

Before St. Clair fulfilled his promise, he was stabbed to death by a hunting knife for intervening in a fight.

St. Clair's wife refused to fulfill her husband's promises and sold Tom to a vicious farmer, Segoyle Legri, in an auction, took Tom to rural Louisiana.

Here Tom met other slaves of Legri, including Emilyn.

When Tom refused to obey Legri's orders to whip his slave companions, Legri began to feel disgusted with him.

Tom suffered cruel whipping, and Legri decided to crush Tom's faith in God.

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

While on the plantation, Tom met Cathy, another slave of Legri.

Cathy was previously forced to separate from her children when she was auctioned; she killed her third child because she could not bear the pain of another child being betrayed.

At this time, Tom Locke returned to the story.

After being cured by Quakers, Locke changed.

George, Eliza and Tom were free after entering Canada. And in Louisiana, when Uncle Tom's faith in God was almost defeated by the torture he suffered in the plantation, he experienced two dreams—one for Jesus and the other for Eva—that made him determined to retain his faith in Christ until death.

He encourages Cathy to escape and asks her to take Emilene with her. When Tom refuses to tell Legley where Cathy and Emilene are fleeing, Legley orders his supervisor to kill Tom.

When he was dying, Tom forgave the two supervisors for their savage beating him: inspired by their character, both of them converted to Christ. Before Tom died, George Shelby appeared and wanted to buy Tom's freedom back, but found that it was too late.

On the way to freedom by boat, Cathy and Emileen met George Harris's sister and went to Canada with her.

Once, Cathy discovered that Eliza was her long-lost daughter. Now they finally met again, they headed to France and eventually arrived in Liberia, an African country that housed former American black slaves.

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

The story ends here.

Although Doug did not appreciate this story very much, it did not prevent him from adapting it in order to maximize his interests.

"Hello, Mrs. Stowe, I wanted to see you after reading your "Uncle Tom's Cabin". I finally met you today. Your writing is excellent, but there are not so many people who know how to read.

And now, the evil reactionary planters in the south are using all their strength to resist the righteous North.

Our north is better than them in terms of weapons and numbers.

However, I think this is not enough.

We need to defeat them from another front, that is, the cultural front.

Therefore, the US Press Group wants to obtain your permission.

Please allow the American Press Group to change "Uncle Tom's Cabin" into a variety of dramas.

Let those who cannot understand books understand the story of "Uncle Tom's Cabin".

Let more people know the evil of the slave owners in the south."

Mrs. Stowe was born in 1811.

Born in a family of pastors in Connecticut.

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

And at the age of twenty, she began to write.

When she was thirty, she began to write "Uncle Tom's Cabin" due to public opinion.

Both she used to be and now she was a devout believer and a person who supported the abolition of slavery.

And now she is in her early fifties, she looks at the young Doug kindly and listens to his endless remarks.

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

As a school based on Puritans, Yale Academy has been a different position among believers from other institutions since its inception.

As a principal student, in a sense, it represents the recognition of him by most people in Yale Academy, the entire Connecticut religious circle, and even the religious circles in New England.

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

Many times, I want to achieve some achievements.

It’s not how many people support you, but who hate you.

In a society with widespread religious beliefs, no one refuses or resists Doug's rise, so he can rise so quickly.

Even Doug thought his rise was a bit too fast.

Mrs. Stowe waited for Doug to say, "God bless my child. I haven't seen that old guy Woolsey for a long time. How are he?"

Mrs. Stowe did not wait for Doug to answer, but asked and answered, "I think I should live well. You said you want to talk about my "Uncle Tom's Cabin" adapted into a script and performed other forms of interpretation.

I don't object to this at all.

However, there is a small problem.

The copyright of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was not in my hands, but was in the hands of the National Age newspaper, John Thiert Publishing Company, and seven other publishing houses.

I support you in adapting my novel, but they don't know.

Those guys, if they think your adaptation will reduce the sales of their books, they shouldn't agree."

"Are these companies?" Doug asked with a piece of paper.

Mrs. Ste, put on reading glasses, stretched her arms and looked at it, and said, "Yes, they are them."

“If it were them…that would be no problem.

Because... I have bought them all." Doug said.

"You bought them all?!" Mrs. Stow said in a little shock.

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

After all, her books have accumulated sales worldwide, and have exceeded five million copies.

However, even if she is very rich, her money may at most buy a publishing company later.
To be continued...