Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe: Summary

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is an anti-slavery novel published on March 20, 1852. It is basically read from the slave’s point of view and, even though it is not based on a true story, it is something that happened to slaves all the time. It starts by Mr.Shelby selling a small kid, Harris, and Tom, because of financial problems. Eliza, Harris’ mother, overheard Mrs. and Mr.Shelby’s conversation and runs to tell Tom the problem so he has time to run away, but he doesn’t, only Eliza and Harris do. Eliza makes it to Ohio and reunites with her Husband, George who also ran away from his master. Meanwhile Tom is taken to Louisiana and is sold to the St. Claire family.
The setting of this novel starts in the state of Kentucky on February …show more content…
She wrote over 30 books, ranging from children’s books to advice on homemaking, but what really blew her career was this novel. Like it is said in the preface of the novel, Harriet states that “the object of these sketches is to awaken sympathy and feeling for the African race, as they exist among us…” (6). It sure did get some people to realize that slavery was cruel and that it should end, however not everyone had a change of heart. Supposedly this novel had a little to do with the Civil War, it was one of the many things that started it. It is very clear that Stowe was bias against slavery and she wanted to do something about it, throughout the novel she sticks with being against slavery. She never changes her point of view about slavery, even when there are a few good “masters” mentioned. This novel was not based on a true story but it was something that happened to many slaves. It happened all the time during that during, many families were separated from each other, many were treated like animals, many ran away only to be captured again; it was awful for all