An Analysis Of Uncle Tom's Cabin

When Harriet Beecher Stowe published her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, in 1852, the Southerners reacted by defending their way of life. They claimed that Stowe was exaggerating, and that the way they were portrayed in the book was false. “Didn’t I pay down twelve hundred dollars, cash, for all there is inside yer old cussed blackshell? An’t yer mine now body and soul?... we’ll see-we’ll see!... give this dog such a breakin’ in as he won’t get over this month!” (Doc C). Over 300,000 copies were sold in the first year of circulation, proving to be the most popular book in the 19th century. Abraham Lincoln greeted Stowe, the first time they met in 1862, by saying there is “the little women who wrote the book that made this great war.” Uncle Tom’s Cabin unveiled all the details that the South tried to cover up, and just added fuel to the abolitionist’s claims and protest.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and was published on March 20th, 1852. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is an anti-slavery novel that talks about how slavery is harmful, traumatic, and it tears families apart and it should be abolished. This book protests the Fugitive Slave Act. Uncle Tom’s Cabin helped cause the Civil War because it was controversial. It wrote about the evils of slavery and put a face to slavery. People in the south believed that the whole story was a lie, and slavery was good. In the south, Harriet Beecher Stowe was portrayed as a villain. But, in the north people agreed with the book and the bad things that were talked about. That caused a huge debate about who was right which eventually led to the civil war. Document C says that Southern people think Harriet Beecher Stowe is a liar and people who believe her aren’t smart. A divide was

Harriet Beecher Stowe published a novel called “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” in the year 1857. Selling over 300,000 copies in one year, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” had made an enormous impact on the people who read it. According to the textbook, “Much of its emotional impact came from its portrayal of slavery as a threat to the family and the Cult

Harriet Beecher Stowe began writing Uncle Tom's Cabin after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed ("Africans"). The Fugitive Slave Act was an agreement between the north and the south that mainly said that if a runaway slave was caught in a free state, the runaway slave had to be returned to his or her owner ("Uncle"). She started to publish her story first as a series of stories in a newspaper called the Era, and when a publisher by the name of John Punchard Jewett read the article, he decided to publish it in book form ("Harriett's Life"). It became the best seller in the United States, England, Europe and Asia ("Harriett's Life). The novel also began to be dramatized all over the world without the consent of Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin not only became a success in book form but also in dramatic from.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin—one of the most popular book in nineteenth century, was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe after the Fugitive Slave Act, which also had a significant influence on abolishing movement of slavery in America. This book can be mainly separated into 2 parts – the slaves’ struggles for freedom, and Uncle Tom’s ups and downs in his whole life.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe had such influence on its readers, by using sentimentality to address the evils of slavery that it changed people’s views of slavery and also the political scene. First, the north, which was hostile towards antislavery, became more open to antislavery. Secondly, it paved the way for Abraham Lincoln, an antislavery candidate. When he met Stowe, he is quoted as saying, “so you’re the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War” (Lincoln, 1862). As stated by Hollis Robbins, “the political influence of Uncle Tom’s Cabin can be measured by who talked about it or who used it as a rationale for action. Frederick Douglass wrote of Uncle Tom’s Cabin that ‘Nothing could have better suited the

Published in 1852, the response to this novel was enormous. The premise of “Uncle Tom’s

Published in 1852, the novel sold 10,000 copies in its first week, a million and half copies in its first year in Great Britain, becoming the best-selling novel of that century (Kane 1). The novel was so successful that it transferred to the medium of theater and attract dissenters and supporters alike (1). More newspapers published work criticizing or applauding the efforts of Stowe than any other contemporary abolitionist work (1). These phenomena led Charles Sumner, at that time leader of radical republicans, to assert that “had there been no Uncle Tom’s Cabin, there would be no Lincoln in the White House” (1). Whether it was being positively received or negatively, the book, and by extension slavery, was the talk of the day, month, and year. It forced proponents of slavery to come forward in staunch support for the system usually in a not so subtle manner. The defense of the institution combined with the content of Stowe’s novel, led many to conclude that slavery was an abomination and a tarnish on the legacy of liberty. Of course, this analysis branches from the assumption that slavery was indeed the catalyst of the

Through incredible storytelling abilities, Harriet Beecher Stowe conveyed to her readers the cruelties of enslavement, the injustices of numerous pro-slave laws, and the desperate need for the abolition of thraldom in our country. Within a month of its publication, an additional 15,000 copies of Uncle Tom's

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1851 specifically to illustrate and highlight the evils and inhumanity of slavery to American readers. Slavery, at the time, was a heated political issue for which few women were allowed to voice an opinion. Her strong views and christian influences were revealed in the novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, as she depicted the immoralities of slavery, the suffering of slaves, and the destruction of the family unit. Stowe, through her writing, wanted to open the eyes of southerners and gain their support for the abolishment of slavery in the South.

It was published in 1852 as “Uncle Tom’s cabin or life Among the Lowly” and the first print run was of 5,000 copies. In a year they had sold 300,000 copies in America and over a million in Britain. It was successful in every corner of U.S, gaining the attention of important figures like Federick Douglas, a very famous African American figure. He said she won a place among the greatest American writers because her work showed knowledge and understanding of the oppression that the slaves were in. The novel made a very big difference in Lincoln’s campaign and in the way that public figures referred to the African American culture.

The story takes place around the 1850’s in the American South, Louisiana and Kentucky. During this era in the south, slavery was at its peak. Harriet Beecher Stowe was the author of the novel; her sole reason for writing the book was to further the anti-slavery campaign. It has been said her novel laid the foundation for the American Civil War. Uncle Tom’s Cabinis an expository novel on the realities and hardships associated with slavery during this era. The book was written in support of the abolitionist movement so to a great extent, a bias does exist in the favor of the emancipation of slave labor. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel was a fiction piece based on the non-fiction realities of slavery.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin is believed, by many historians, to be a spark that ignited the American Civil War. Stowe’s novel had a vast impact on Americans. Stowe made readers realize that

Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist and the author of the famous novel Uncle Tom's Cabin published in 1852 she wrote Uncle Toms Cabin in response to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, a law forcing non-slave owners in the free northern states to return escaped slaves to their Southern masters. The novel was a depiction of life for African American slaves in the mid-nineteenth century, which energized anti-slavery forces in the North, while provoking widespread anger in the south. Uncle Toms Cabin mainly focused on the immorality of slavery. Stowe’s primary audience were white women especially northern white women who could help with the abolitionist movement and used their emotions and guilt by using seemingly real characters suffering from the injustice of slavery in her novel.

Rarely does a one work of literature change a society or start it down the road to cataclysmic controversy.  One such work is Harriet Beecher Stowe's, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.  Considered by many, one the most influential American works of fiction ever published.  Uncle Tom’s Cabin contracts many different attitudes that Southerners as well as Northerners shared towards slavery. It shows the evils and cruelties of slavery and the cruelty, in particular how masters treat their slaves and how families are torn apart because of slavery. Before the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, information regarding the evils of slavery and the treatment of slaves was not readily available. Uncle Tom’s Cabin succeeded where other anti-slavery publications had