The Role Of Slavery In Harriet Beecher Stowe's Nebrask

The civil war was one of the most intense and destructive wars the U.S have ever experienced, the war left over 640,000 soldiers dead, 476,000 wounded and 400,000 missing, this resulting in about 2% of the population dead. Whilst the war brought violence and destruction it also resolved two important questions that were unable to be resolved by the revolution these include; weather the United States was going to be made up of many independent states or a united nation with an independent government, and weather the United States was going to remain as the largest slaveholding country. Before the war the division between the north and south was a rising problem, which reached its peak at the outbreak war, the division was based around the different opinions on slavery, the election Of Abraham Lincoln And the Kansas …show more content…
The book personalised the political and economic arguments on slavery, the books purpose was to portray the horrors of slavery in a way that the public could easily relate to. Even though the book is fiction it was still able to deliver an extremely powerful message, characters black and white, in the north and south all facing the world around slavery. Not only does she show some slave masters as sadistic but some who are kind to their slaves, the plot shows how slavery is operated as a business. The book show the buying and selling of slaves and sheds a new light on the effects it has on the slaves families. There are many people who believe she was to compassionate towards the masters, she had the goal to make an impact on some of the ideals of people in the south. The book helped widen the circle of abolitionists also causing a greater tension between north and south. The south reaction was different to the North’s, the south believed the book was aimed