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Uncle Tom's Cabin Dbq Essay

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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 …show more content…

This novel helped to start the civil war because it was a controversial book that sparked debate because of many different viewpoints that people has about the novel and slavery itself. Document C says Southern people think Harriet Beecher Stowe is a liar and that people who believe her lies aren’t smart. A divide was created because people in the north didn’t agree with that. Document G believes that people in the south make up good things about slavery that aren't true, and they think Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel is accurate. Document E says that the north and south had different interests so the states would permanently divide if they couldn’t agree. Document D states that people who rebel against the fugitive slave act should get punished and if people keep rebelling the division can’t be repaired because there will only be bloodshed. A divide was created because of the different opinions the north and south had about slavery, and t was irreparable because of people that protested the fugitive slave

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