Uncle Tom’s Cabin written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, is an anti-slavery novel written just prior to the Civil War. It is a fictional yet realistic view of slavery that impacted American people with the brutalities of unfair slave practice. The novel had provoked intense controversy and discussion throughout the country and is even credited as to being a cause of the Civil War. Stowe uses aspects of religion, temperance, and gender roles to argue the issues of her time, such as slavery. Slavery is a practice in which a white man, controls the life and liberty of an African, which had existed in the United States since colonialism, until post civil war 1865. Uncle Tom’s Cabin portrays the contradiction between the evil of slavery and the good
