The Hunters Of Men Poem Analysis

Stories such as Uncle Tom’s Cabin, “The Hunters of Men”, and “Civil Disobedience” all have a connection with the fight to gain civil rights and equality. Much of that still carries on into the 21st century we live in today. In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a woman takes matters into her own hands in order to save her child, showing her strength and bravery that many women in today's time possess as well. “The Hunters of Men”, a short story written by John Greenleaf Whittier, is considered to be a public attack on slave hunters. The public attacks against their government and the way people were treated didn't stop there, in “Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau, Thoreau made sure to show that the people had more power over the government than they thought. He used his Transcendentalist ideas to show that the government only has as much power as the people give it and that the people can peacefully resist the government in order to receive the changes they want. These stores and many more all have a connection with the way the world is today, whether it is fighting for equality or making a change; history repeats itself.
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in hopes of making a change. The themes she used to write this great work shines through even …show more content…
Whittier wrote “The Hunters of Men” in hopes of abolishing slave hunting. He wrote about the struggle of the black race and the extent to which they were hunted. While in today’s time slaves aren’t hunted like animals, this could be similar to the luring of sex slaves in the slave trade that is very much a 21st century issue. There is still a huge struggle that citizens today faced much like Whittier described in his story, citizens still fight for what they believe in even though no one understands what they fight