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Harriet Beecher Stoowe Analysis

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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s intent is to provide insight about the slavery system in the South to people in the North and persuade them to act upon their feelings regarding the subject. Stowe illustrates this by giving examples of cruelty, providing instances that elucidate the negative effects that the system entitles, and many subtle uses of moral suasion. Stowe gave numerous instances of cruelty the slaves endured throughout this novel. For example, the Legree plantation is a prime illustration of inhumanity inflicted by slaveowners. On this plantation, the slaves: are allowed one set of clothes per year, must look happy (presumably to strengthen Legree’s paternalistic view on slavery), faith is obstructed, women are rousted, and slaves are

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