The Woman that “Started” the Civil War
Harriet Beecher Stowe was a writer and abolitionist (June 14, 1811- July 1, 1896). Stowe affected the Civil war by publishing, the most popular novel at the time Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Stowe’s book demonstrates the horrors of slavery. Stowe’s goal was to inspire people to fight against slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s, Uncle Tom’s Cabin inflamed the environment on the issue of slavery, persuading the North about evils of slavery and angering the South.
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s goals was to educate the nation about the evils of slavery. Stowe wanted something done about slavery. As a result Stowe was successful, Stowe technically lead the North and the South into the Civil War. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s life …show more content…
They read Stowe’s book and despised it as being propaganda. The North said Stowe describes the situations fairly, well the South doesn’t think that way. The South’s response in the Southern Literary Messenger, a newspaper in Richmond states, “It is a fiction throughout; a fiction in form; a fiction in its facts; a fiction in its representations and coloring; a fiction in its statements; a fiction in its sentiments; a fiction in its morals; a fiction in its religion; a fiction in its inferences; a fiction equally with regard to the subjects it is designed to expound, and with respect to the manner of their exposition”(3). Basically all the South said is everything in Uncle Tom’s Cabin is fiction! The South did not take her book seriously their whole response was fiction! Stowe tried making the slaves in the South seem like how the South would explain their slaves. Stowe didn’t make them harsh she made her characters how the South would say their slaves are like. The Southern Literary Messenger also states, “Every fact is distorted, every incident discolored, in order to awaken rancorous hatred and malignant jealousies between the citizens of the same republic, the fellow countrymen whose interests and happiness are linked with the perpetuity of a common union, and with the prosperity of a common government”(4). The South demonstrated that every fact is incorrect, Stowe made it so people would go against the South. Harriet made discolored scenes to get the public against us. The Southern Literary Messenger claims her whole book is fiction leading them against Stowe and the North. This results in the conflict between the North and the South. The North is anti slaves and the South is pro slaves. This lead the tension between them. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, angered the South leading them against the
Harriet Beecher Stowe was a writer and abolitionist (June 14, 1811- July 1, 1896). Stowe affected the Civil war by publishing, the most popular novel at the time Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Stowe’s book demonstrates the horrors of slavery. Stowe’s goal was to inspire people to fight against slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s, Uncle Tom’s Cabin inflamed the environment on the issue of slavery, persuading the North about evils of slavery and angering the South.
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s goals was to educate the nation about the evils of slavery. Stowe wanted something done about slavery. As a result Stowe was successful, Stowe technically lead the North and the South into the Civil War. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s life …show more content…
They read Stowe’s book and despised it as being propaganda. The North said Stowe describes the situations fairly, well the South doesn’t think that way. The South’s response in the Southern Literary Messenger, a newspaper in Richmond states, “It is a fiction throughout; a fiction in form; a fiction in its facts; a fiction in its representations and coloring; a fiction in its statements; a fiction in its sentiments; a fiction in its morals; a fiction in its religion; a fiction in its inferences; a fiction equally with regard to the subjects it is designed to expound, and with respect to the manner of their exposition”(3). Basically all the South said is everything in Uncle Tom’s Cabin is fiction! The South did not take her book seriously their whole response was fiction! Stowe tried making the slaves in the South seem like how the South would explain their slaves. Stowe didn’t make them harsh she made her characters how the South would say their slaves are like. The Southern Literary Messenger also states, “Every fact is distorted, every incident discolored, in order to awaken rancorous hatred and malignant jealousies between the citizens of the same republic, the fellow countrymen whose interests and happiness are linked with the perpetuity of a common union, and with the prosperity of a common government”(4). The South demonstrated that every fact is incorrect, Stowe made it so people would go against the South. Harriet made discolored scenes to get the public against us. The Southern Literary Messenger claims her whole book is fiction leading them against Stowe and the North. This results in the conflict between the North and the South. The North is anti slaves and the South is pro slaves. This lead the tension between them. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, angered the South leading them against the