Over time, sectional tensions began to rise over the institution of slavery and the basic freedom being denied towards blacks. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel attacked the institution more aggressively than any other novel before it. Not only was it a novel, but also a sermon. Stowe’s basis for her argument against slavery was the love and compassion that were supposedly the fundamental ideas behind Christianity. In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, author Harriet Beecher Stowe uses a variety of characters, such as slave owners, women, and Christian figures, in order to cover the broad demographic spectrum of the 19th century United States in order to appeal to the masses and affect each reader in a specific and different way to ultimately expose the brutality, inequality, and immorality of the “peculiar institution” of
Over time, sectional tensions began to rise over the institution of slavery and the basic freedom being denied towards blacks. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel attacked the institution more aggressively than any other novel before it. Not only was it a novel, but also a sermon. Stowe’s basis for her argument against slavery was the love and compassion that were supposedly the fundamental ideas behind Christianity. In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, author Harriet Beecher Stowe uses a variety of characters, such as slave owners, women, and Christian figures, in order to cover the broad demographic spectrum of the 19th century United States in order to appeal to the masses and affect each reader in a specific and different way to ultimately expose the brutality, inequality, and immorality of the “peculiar institution” of