Tom's Cabin, By Harriet Beecher Stowe Sparknotes

In the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe is trying to communicate with the North/Union how slaves are treated and the different things that happen to slaves all the time in the south. The book was created to show the people of the north a better visual of how slavery is dealt with and controlled in the south. And she explains to the Union how slavery in the south is by giving the north stories and first person experiences of how slaves are treated great on one plantation and, how they have a good relationship with their masters compared to slaves on a different plantation that are treated with torture and having to be forced to get married, and beaten. Another way she intents to communicate is that she shows how slaves are separated from their loved ones and are sold to other slave owners because, slaves are property. She also tells a story to intent to give a perspective to the readers of a woman who is trying to sneak her child into Canada because, he was sold away and would have to be separated from his family. She puts this story in her book to show that slaves had to risk their lives and run away to stay together, and to live a better life.

One of the things Harriet Beecher Stowe put in her book to communicate to the north was the different types of relationships slaves had with their masters in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. There was a good and …show more content…
She has showed the north what has happened and is still going on and what they still have to go through. She explained through in the book about how the relationships were with the slaves. She also wrote about how badly they were mistreated, raped, and abused and sometimes killed. The reason that she wrote this book was to get it across to the north that there were very bad things happening in slavery. And that slavery should be ended in the south for