Uncle Tom 's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe

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.

When Uncle Tom was transported by ship to New Orleans, he became acquainted with a young white girl called Eva. When Eva fell into the river, Tom saved her life. To thank for Tom saving her life, Eva's father, Augustine St. Clare, bought Tom from the hands of the slave dealer. Two years after Tom lived with St. Clare, Eva got a seriously ill. Before she died, she dreamed of heaven and as Eva's death and her dreams, St. Clare promised to set Tom free. However, before St. Clare fulfilled his promise, he was stabbed by a knife because he was involved in a battle. Tom's second master, the little girl Eva's father; is the most compassionate slave in the novel. St. Clare had realized the evil of the slavery, but had not yet been able to give up for

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s riveting anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is best known for its tremendous impact on ending slavery in the 19th century United States. Because slavery had become a system so deeply embedded across all of America, Stowe needed to appeal to a number of different audiences to effectively communicate her message. Stowe utilized a number of strategies to accomplish this. One of these was focusing on the different “homes” that we encounter throughout the novel. Specifically, the different “homes” that Uncle Tom inhabits and the people within those homes are very important in enabling Stowe to relate to the many different classes and demographics that would potentially read the novel. Stowe shows, through Uncle Tom’s

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, one of the best classic novels by Harriet Beecher Stowe takes place in Kentucky on Mr. Shelby’s land. In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the author communicates to the reader the horrific actions and aftermaths of slavery. She does this by telling the story of slaves who were sold to unpleasant masters, showing slavery rips apart families and loved ones, and by showing how children - both free and slave - are affected by slavery.

     In the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom, the main character, possesses a trait that sanctifies him from the rest of the characters. Uncle Tom's faith is his source of strength throughout the novel. This is portrayed socially, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. Uncle Tom relies solely on his faith in God to assist him in all the trials, tribulations, and hardships that he endures. Tom never succumbs to the sin that those around him are so deeply engulfed. Tom's dedication to the Christian faith obviously sets him apart from the other characters in the story. However, without his unbinding belief in God, Uncle Tom would cease to be such a Christ-like

"Poverty is not an accident, Like slavery and apartheid, it is man made and can be removed by the actions of human beings." quoted by Nelson Mandela. Throughout History slavery has always been a form of forced labor and being owned by another person. African Americans were brought over to America for slave trade and only a few were treated with respect. When a person thinks of slavery, they picture a black person being worked to death and if they do something wrong they are beaten. Since African Americans were looked at as slaves to this day black people just want to be looked as human beings and have an equal respect as all other people. They do not want that status of being seen as incapable of learning, or just used for labor.

In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet B. Stowe had depicted a historical tragedy during ages of slavery. As a representative, one of the slaves, Tom, a preacher of Christianity, a fanatic believer who makes the contradictions become apparent. The thread running through struggle and conflicts is the theme of gradually developed overt rebellion as well as ideology like Christian infiltration.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's melodramatic novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, which she called in the preface a "series of sketches", was written "to awaken sympathy and feeling for the African race" (Stowe "Preface"). It was so successful as a polemic against slavery that Lincoln gently called Mrs. Stowe "the little lady who started this big war" (Hughes "Introduction"). Stowe wrote from the point of view of an abolitionist, a Christian and a Northerner from a state that bordered the slave-owning South.

An Investigation of the influence of Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe in the varying perspectives of early 19th Century Americans

At the beginning of the story, Mr. Shelby, compared with other masters at that time, is gentle. But as a typical southern gentleman, money holds greater significance than slaves to him. This moderate figure appears at first because neither the generous Mr. Clare nor the cruel Mr. Legree would make the same decision as him -- to sell Tom. This is the start of the whole story, and also the turning point of Tom’s destiny. Only this development is able to make subsequent plots possible and logical. The second master, Mr. Shelby and his daughter Eva, act as the the salvation of Tom’s spirit. Without their courage and mercy, Tom could hardly keep his faith under the brutality of Legree. This section with St. Clare family is the warmest part of the story. It not only strength Tom’s belief in Christianity, but also contrast sharply with the dark days Tom would suffer later in Legree’s plantation. At there Tom spent the most direful time in his life. Legree’s atrocities finally led to the death of Tom and also directly promoted to the sublimation of the central theme -- revealing and accusing the invidious

As many people say history was written by the victors, we need to remember there would be no victors without the struggle and turmoil of those that lost. This is what Harriet Beecher Stowe’s compelling novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin has taught us in regards to the war on slavery. In the midst of the 1800’s, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote her best-selling novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, to address the various issues regarding race during this century. Throughout her novel, readers learn the lives of slaves, slave masters, and their families, which leads to the understanding of a unique lifestyle among the characters. As her novel is important in today’s society, it made an even greater impact during the nineteenth century as it portrays the ideology of the Civil War and the abolitionists.

In the 21st century, Hollywood transformed best-selling novels into movies; in the 19th century, best-selling novels became plays. Uncle Tom’s Cabin became the best-selling novel of the 19th century and elicited widely varying dramatizations. While copyright protection laws are extensive today, they protected only the actual printing of the novel in 1852. Being a phenomenal success, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was immediately adapted and dramatized without Harriet Beecher Stowe’s approval. In these dramatizations known as Tom shows, characters became comical caricatures through the use of blackface minstrel traditions and the true purpose of the anti-slavery novel was lost in this mockery. Unfortunately, these plays frame the modern understanding of Uncle Tom’s Cabin as people became less likely to spend time reading the novel when slavery was already abolished. Tom shows were loosely based on the Stowe’s novel and generally added extravagant effects such as bloodhounds, minstrel traditions, double characters, and alternative endings that avoided Stowe’s original anti-slavery message.

The first character we will discuss is Emily Shelby who is the wife of Arthur Shelby who is a Kentucky Plantation owner and the owner of Uncle Tom. Mrs. Shelby is a kind, loving, and Christian woman who is strongly opposed to slavery and takes it upon herself to treat them with most respect. Mrs. Shelby from a spiritual standpoint cares about her slaves relationship with God and teaches his word to them. Mr. Shelby and Mrs. Shelby treat the slaves with kindness but differ significantly in regards to slavery. Unlike other women of this time period, Mrs. Shelby stands by her views and morals regardless if her

(1662; sc. 4). From this emotional statement, the reader learns that Tom despises the sacrifices he has been forced to make. Furthermore, he believes that if he could only escape the apartment and his job he will be free to achieve his goals. Tom longs for an escape similar to his father’s. In fact, Tom spends nearly all his time talking about the future and the things he would like to

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, is arguably the most influential novel in American History. Stowe’s sentimental writing style seized the imagination of her readers and Uncle Tom’s Cabin became the standard of the abolition movement. Uncle Tom, one of the protagonists, spreads Christianity and dies for his faith, like Christ. By equating Uncle Tom with Jesus Christ, Harriet Beecher Stowe deliberately provokes her audience to social change and abolition.