Uncle Tom's Cabin
Submitted by pskaw on March 24, 2008
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, through her novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, helped to bring slavery out of political and social avoidance into the forefront of political and social focus. This paper will address how Stowe effectively utilized her characters to personalize the issue of slavery to her audience and demonstrate how even humane slave-owners contributed to the desolate lives of the slaves. Stowe brought the hardships of the slaves to her readers, visually and emotionally, radically affecting their perceptions about the institution of slavery. Because Stowe brought indignation and enlightenment to the citizens of the country as to the evils of slavery, she contributed to the movement to free the slaves, which, among other factors, led to the Civil War.
Beginning in 1619 in Virginia, slave traders who came to America became wealthy selling slaves in both northern and southern...