Fitly Spoken: Uncle Tom's Cabin By Greg Baker

The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published in the United States in 1852. The novel depicted slavery as a moral evil and was the cause of much controversy at the time and long after. Uncle Tom's Cabin outraged the South and received praise in the North. The publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin was a major turning point for the United States which helped bring about the Civil War.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a slavery novel written by Harriet Breecher Stowe. The book begins with Arthur Shelby, a “kind” slave owner and Tom’s master who resides in Kentucky. He is facing the loss of his farm because he has debts. Even though Mr. Shelby and his wife Emily have a close by connection with their slaves, Arthur decides to raise funds by selling two of his slaves which are Uncle Tom and Harry. Uncle Tom is a man with a wife and children, and he is about middle aged, and Harry, the son of Emily Shelby’s servant Eliza, are going to be sold to a slave trader. Emily is not okay with the idea of Harry being sold because she has promised

Your book Uncle Tom's Cabin informed me about how people were treated back during the Antebellum Era. Before I read your novel, I really didn't know what slavery was. I wasn't really informed about the topic, although I watched little plays about slavery since they were some what informal, But I didn't fully understand the lifestyle of slavery. The idea of slavery never came into my mind unless it was brought to me by teachers and classmates. It wasn't something that I regularly talked about in general.

Abraham Lincoln is quoted as saying, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.” upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe for the first time. The book that the former president is referring to is Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a 1850s book about the moral wrongs of slavery. It has been said to be the most influential anti-slavery book that has ever been written. Harriet Beecher Stowe is an effective author. She uses numerous literary devices such as facile characters, character foils, and symbolism to highlight her abolitionist views and constructs a persuasive argument against slavery.

The Civil War affected both England and France, economically by taking out a trading partner of both countries, by challenging their morals because neither wanted to support slavery, and politically because England and France wanted a weaker United States.

Harriet Beecher Stowe was an author from America and abolitionist, she is widely known for writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in 1852 and written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. In this book, a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby has to sell two of his slaves due to debt. These two slaves were Uncle Tom and Henry. Eliza was the mother to Henry and one night she overheard the news that her son and Tom were to be sold to a man named Haley. As soon as Eliza heard this news she told Tom and went on her way to escape with her son.

Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut on june 14, 1811. Harriet Beecher Stowe had was the sixth out of 13 kids"Harriet Beecher Stowe.”. Her father was Lyman Beecher religious leader. Her brothers became ministers, and one of her sisters Catharine Beecher was a author. Catharine Beecher helped shaped Harriet's views. Harriet went to Hartford Female Seminary. Hartford Female Seminary was a school runned by Harriet's older sister catharine.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was valuable because it opened the eyes of American citizens to the harsh reality of slavery and proved its need for abolishment. Harriet Beecher Stowe proved the wrongness and cruelty of many southern slave owners by mentioning the splitting up of slave families in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. In the beginning of the book, Stowe developed the nasty and feelingless character of Mr. Haley, a slave trader. He decided to buy Harry from Mr. Shelby and wanted to separate the young child from his mother without considering the impact it would have on their family. Stowe also explored the cruelty of slavery in the scene where Simon Legree beat Uncle Tom to death. She used Legree as an example for many southern slave owners who brutally acted the same way in real life. Stowe was very bothered by the fact that slave owners were willing to kill their own slaves and was able to share her hostile feelings with many others with her book. Through Stowe’s examples of family separation and death, she was able to show Americans how ruthless some slave owners could truly be. This compelled both Northerners and Southerners to fight for the abolishment of slavery.

By the 19th century the debate over race centered around two theories: “one theory was that different races signified different species; the other, that humans were one species and that race represented discrepancy in the human species” (Michael). These views were compatible with the teachings of the Bible. Through the mid-19th century, there was confrontation to slavery in both the U.S. and Europe. The abolitionist movement of the 19th century sought to humanize the predicament of African slaves in various ways, to influence political power and public opinion. One of the ways that race played out in popular culture was in the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which depicted a more realistic portrait of slavery and

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe which originally was published on March 20, 1852. Under the background that the country had been divided over the issue over slavery, the south states of the country are slaves states, and the north states of the country are slave free states. Different sides of the country have distinct views over slavery system in south. The north, specially abolitionist, views slavery system is villainous and immoral, it takes away the basic right of human which is freedom, and it againsts God which is Christian believes. The theme of the novel based on the abolitionist views. The purpose of the novel is that tell the world what is slave life like, especially for those northerners never been to the south.Their life will be strenuous or comfortable is depend on what kind of slave owner they meet. The book is appeal people to face and deal with the issue of slavery which lasted in the history for a long time.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in 1852 which turned out to be a success. It discusses and explains the hard circumstances that slaves had to deal with on a daily basis. It also explains how much suffering they had to endure during this evil slave time. Tom is the main character in this novel who is a faithful religious man who refused white authority to save his slaves. The novel opens with Mr. Shelby and Haley trying to compromise and make a business deal.

“Engaging God’s World” by Cornellius Plantinga Jr. is like an overview of the Bible. The overall goal of the book is to get the reader to think about the Bible in a different way. Plantinga brings up the three major parts of the Bible with creation, fall, and redemption, and instead of just restating what the Bible says he puts it in a way for the reader to interpret how they feel. He relates it back at the end of the book how the way the reader interprets the Bible shapes their entire future. Plantinga also talks about why learning in a Christian environment is important to strengthening personal religion.

ideologies between the north and south and their conflicts over the issue of slavery. In the

America’s history has been a hard progression. The Civil War marked one of the most monumental turns for American progression. The abolishment of slavery represented the first major challenge to the America ideal of democracy. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin to advocate for this abolishment, and thus had to maneuver through the great American paradox, the paradox between American revolutionary ideals and the realities of a slaveholding and repressive state. It was necessary to recognize the historical roots of slavery as incompatible with the founding principles of the nation. However, the founding fathers themselves largely supported or ignored this incompatibility. Stowe represents the most famous founding father, George Washington,