Uncle Toms cabin is an anti-slavery novel which was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and was published in 1852. an argument based on the author and date of a publication can be made on this document because it is a novel with a defined Author and a publication date.
other documents are policies/act proposed to the congress and where either rejected or accepted. they had no Author because they were not novels for the General public to read and make arguments about the author and its publication date. like with the Fugitive slave act it was an act passed by the congress that stipulates that runaway slaves should be captured and returned to their masters.
