Reynolds is based on Uncle Tom’s Cabin that impacted American culture and democracy.
Reynold is a researcher that uncovers Uncle Tom of freed slave named Tomas Magruder. In
Mightier than the Sword Reynold argues the impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s
Cabin upon Americans.
Harriet Becher Stowe is part of a religious family that undermine Calvinist orthodoxy,
that views God and the afterlife. Her father was a ministry and her mother had died from
tuberculosis. Stowe has a very high range of cultural influence from slavery to real-life
situation. Experience with African Americans has led Stowe to be more religious and become
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If in the long vision she had described to Calvin she saw Christ in heaven as a
little child who was friendly to poor illiterate slaves” (Reynolds 35) culture importance is shown
by the author through one helping another through a rough time. Through a rough time, a needed
support and a common purpose like Christ had lead many others to connect to each other. Race
and slavery had led to an extent of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and change to history causing a civil war. Stowe wrote a novel that targeted Fugitive Slave Laws which were part of the
Compromise of 1850. From harsh penalties on blacks that are attempting to escape laws helped
Union confirm in the Constitution to be returned. Stowe expressed her most fears in future of
American blacks. This ties into what Reynolds urges the American culture and democracy.
“Stowe was leading popularizer of higher law held by who looked beyond the Constitution or the
Fugitive Slave Law to the law of natural justice, supported by God and morality” (Reynolds
118). With Fugitive Slave Law this helped shape up the difference between cultures and
providing help to slaves. The Constitution really did not support African American and