The book is about the horror of slavery which opened many people’s eyes to what was really going on down South. Biographer McDougal proclaims, “In quick response, Northerners, abolitionists increased their protests against the Fugitive Slave Act, while Southerners criticized the book as an attack on the South as a whole. The furor over Uncle Tom’s Cabin had barely begun settle when a new controversy over slavery drew heated” (McDougal 312). The Fugitive Slave Act didn’t allow escaped slaves free forever. If their former master finds them, they go back to being a slave again which wasn’t fair. With a newly released book about the savagery of slavery, the South felt offended it seemed as if the book was talking about the South as a whole and not all Southerners owned slaves. Nonetheless, the North was getting rowdy and knew this wasn’t going to end too well. At this moment, the abolitionists knew something had to be done and
The book is about the horror of slavery which opened many people’s eyes to what was really going on down South. Biographer McDougal proclaims, “In quick response, Northerners, abolitionists increased their protests against the Fugitive Slave Act, while Southerners criticized the book as an attack on the South as a whole. The furor over Uncle Tom’s Cabin had barely begun settle when a new controversy over slavery drew heated” (McDougal 312). The Fugitive Slave Act didn’t allow escaped slaves free forever. If their former master finds them, they go back to being a slave again which wasn’t fair. With a newly released book about the savagery of slavery, the South felt offended it seemed as if the book was talking about the South as a whole and not all Southerners owned slaves. Nonetheless, the North was getting rowdy and knew this wasn’t going to end too well. At this moment, the abolitionists knew something had to be done and