After the Revolutionary War, slavery was an extensive and a very difficult issue all over the nation. Furthermore, Missouri Compromise was a compromise when Missouri entered the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state and this law prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude line in 1854. The slave trade became more profitable in pro- slave states after this compromise. Subsequently, the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which is an act passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The attitude of Southern American people toward slavery
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Tom just wants to be a good child of God in whatever situations he would be. As believer of God, he just did what he thought was right. “The incorruptible fidelity, piety and honesty, of Uncle Tom…” (Stowe 371). The commentary of Abraham Lincoln regarding Uncle Tom’s Cabin to its author would have been just an opinion as of many in that time bringing up to encounter feelings and prejudice of the individual’s skin color. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, in that time helped to be an eye opener of several individuals that were on the edge to keep forever the ideology of skin color should be a fact to stereotype to enslave souls. The novel becomes a push to open ways to abolish slavery in the United States. Events like the writing of this book caused the indifference in a great part of society toward slavery; however, over the time, it changed the way of thinking in America society. Even though, skin color is still an issue today in America and around the world, there always be generations who can change this subject by seeing each other as a humans being with no color or race to build a better society and eventually a better
Tom just wants to be a good child of God in whatever situations he would be. As believer of God, he just did what he thought was right. “The incorruptible fidelity, piety and honesty, of Uncle Tom…” (Stowe 371). The commentary of Abraham Lincoln regarding Uncle Tom’s Cabin to its author would have been just an opinion as of many in that time bringing up to encounter feelings and prejudice of the individual’s skin color. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, in that time helped to be an eye opener of several individuals that were on the edge to keep forever the ideology of skin color should be a fact to stereotype to enslave souls. The novel becomes a push to open ways to abolish slavery in the United States. Events like the writing of this book caused the indifference in a great part of society toward slavery; however, over the time, it changed the way of thinking in America society. Even though, skin color is still an issue today in America and around the world, there always be generations who can change this subject by seeing each other as a humans being with no color or race to build a better society and eventually a better