Quick Recap & Today’s Final Jeopardy – June 9, 2016

Today’s contestants:

Mark Adams, a health benefits advisor from Johnstown, PA

Peggy Szymeczek, a retired Civil Servant from Gilbert, AZ

Hunter Appler, an attorney from Mount Airy, NC (1-day total: $24,801)

Hunter’s going to be joining us on the next #JeopardyLivePanel episode, currently scheduled for Monday, June 13th at 8:00 PM Eastern.

Scores going into Final Jeopardy:
Hunter $20,000
Mark $9,200
Peggy $4,400

Final Jeopardy! category: 19TH CENTURY NONFICTION

Final Jeopardy! clue: A 2014 bestseller, in 1853 it was called “more extraordinary” than “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” because “it is only a simple unvarnished tale”

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Of course, it was a 2014 bestseller because of the Best Picture Oscar win of the movie that it was based upon.

From the Publisher’s Advertisement for this book in The Liberator 26 Aug. 1853:

Next to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the extraordinary Narrative of Solomon Northup is the most remarkable book that was ever issued from the American press. Indeed, it is a more extraordinary work than that, because it is only a simple unvarnished tale of the experience of an American freeman of the “blessings” of slavery, while Mrs. Stowe’s Uncle Tom is only a powerfully wrought novel, intended to illustrate what Solomon saw and experienced, Southern Slavery in its various phases.—Detroit Trib.

Another review:

The volume cannot fail to gain a wide circulation. It will be read extensively, both at the North and South. No one can contemplate the scenes which are here so naturally set forth, without a new conviction of the hideousness of the institution from which the subject of the narrative has happily escaped.—N.Y. Tribune

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