Uncle Toms Cabin Chapter Summary

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on June 14, 1811. Born to Lyman Beecher and Roxana Foote. She published her very first novel Primary Geography for Children in 1833. The textbook addressed slavery and abolition from a geopolitical context yet was not well received. Uncle Tom’s Cabin subsequently was published in 1852 and was better received and understood. Her main idea is the argument against the nation of slavery. She uses many examples of family throughout her book to argue against the notion of slavery. She provides examples of both white and black families to argue the case against slavery. It could be construed that her main audience would have been the reader from the south when in fact she was directly confronting the northern and southern slave owners. Her edict against the northern slave owners was that they followed the Fugitive Slave Law and thus was indirectly supporting slavery as a whole. Besides being the back bone for the anti-slavery movement and leading to the beginning of the civil war, Uncle Tom’s Cabin also was on the edge of the feminist movement even if it was unbeknownst to the average reader at that time. Women’s suffrage first came to light in 1848 four years before Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published and I am sure since Stowe was in such close proximity to the state of New York that she was privy to the murmurings of this movement within her social …show more content…
This is evident in her text, Stowe empowers the woman in the motherhood role as the main group of people who will challenge and change the ideology of slavery through their instincts a caring, loving