It’s not rare for Uncle Tom’s Cabin to be assigned to English students as part of a certain project in the curriculum. While this is all well and good, many of those students do not research the author of the book they may be reading outside of the classroom. The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, during her years, was not simply an author; but a significant historical symbol of the American Civil War. Her actions and writings influenced the zeitgeist of the era, and ignited a fire underneath the cooking pot of the civil rights movement.
On June 14th, 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe was born into a family that taught her love, sincerity, and other purported christian values. Stowe’s Christian background and northern residence …show more content…
The lack of encounters with slave owners during her formative years could possibly have contributed to her abolitionist stance, from not being numbed to the concept in her youth. Another great influence was the he Semicolon club.During Stowe’s career in Lane Theological Seminary, she joined the Semi-Colon club. At this club, she heard many different perspectives concerning slavery. Stowe used her father’s teachings, her location, and the members of her social groups to construct an ideal opinion on slavery, which she then used to write some of the most important tomes of the …show more content…
It inspired future anti-slavery/civil rights/politics centric novels like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, and Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. The Civil War, a violent war resulting from the controversy engulfing slavery’s ethics, began not even 10 years after Stowe published the book. Uncle Tom’s Cabin became a best-seller, and many Americans, whether they agreed or disagreed with the novel’s message, knew more about the anti-slavery viewpoint. The novel sped up the morality zeitgeist, “is cited among the causes of the American Civil War”
On June 14th, 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe was born into a family that taught her love, sincerity, and other purported christian values. Stowe’s Christian background and northern residence …show more content…
The lack of encounters with slave owners during her formative years could possibly have contributed to her abolitionist stance, from not being numbed to the concept in her youth. Another great influence was the he Semicolon club.During Stowe’s career in Lane Theological Seminary, she joined the Semi-Colon club. At this club, she heard many different perspectives concerning slavery. Stowe used her father’s teachings, her location, and the members of her social groups to construct an ideal opinion on slavery, which she then used to write some of the most important tomes of the …show more content…
It inspired future anti-slavery/civil rights/politics centric novels like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, and Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. The Civil War, a violent war resulting from the controversy engulfing slavery’s ethics, began not even 10 years after Stowe published the book. Uncle Tom’s Cabin became a best-seller, and many Americans, whether they agreed or disagreed with the novel’s message, knew more about the anti-slavery viewpoint. The novel sped up the morality zeitgeist, “is cited among the causes of the American Civil War”