A beautifully inspirational quote said by American Abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe shows how she felt during the times when slavery was at its highest, “It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.” This could not be a better quote as to explain why she wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Living with the lowly. Claimed to have laid out the groundwork for the Civil War, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is a book about two slaves and their separate adventures through hardship and change from their favorable home. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was also called the greatest American propaganda novel ever written (Kane), because she wanted to indirectly inform and show the nation about how slaves were
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From the information that I had gathered, Stowe had become an abolitionist during the 1830s (“The Abolitionists,”). This was around the time of the Underground Railroad, so when slavery was prohibited north of the Ohio River, slaves would make their way through the Underground Railroad to freedom. Stowe had become friends with several of the slaves; getting stories and first-person views from the fugitive slaves, which formed her book Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a work of fiction that revolves around the stories of two slaves that were chosen to be sold from good farmers for the sake of needing money to support the land on which the Kentucky farmers, Mr. Shelby and Mrs. Shelby, live on. Yet, things do not go to plan because Mrs. Shelby’s favorite maid, Eliza’s son Harry is one of the two chosen slaves to be sold which frightens Eliza and leads to a conflict of Eliza taking her and her son up north to Canada to be free with Eliza 's husband. The other slave to be sold is none other than Uncle Tom, who is a middle-aged man with a family on the farm. Between the two stories, the level of intensity is generally the same since Eliza and her son get chased down by a malicious group of slave hunters hired by Mr. Haley to capture her and Uncle Tom goes through two masters of different temperaments. One master by the name of Augustine St. Clare, was kind and caring towards his colored brethren, especially since Uncle Tom saved his angelic daughter Eva from drowning in a river while they were riding a boat (Stowe Chapter XIV). Since Eva and Uncle Tom had become friends, Eva begged her father to buy Uncle Tom to give Uncle Tom happiness. Thus, when Uncle Tom had gotten to the St. Clare house, he was well taken care of and cared for his dear friend Eva until one day Eva had become ill and died only to be followed by her father not too long after because Mr. St. Clare got stabbed and
From the information that I had gathered, Stowe had become an abolitionist during the 1830s (“The Abolitionists,”). This was around the time of the Underground Railroad, so when slavery was prohibited north of the Ohio River, slaves would make their way through the Underground Railroad to freedom. Stowe had become friends with several of the slaves; getting stories and first-person views from the fugitive slaves, which formed her book Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a work of fiction that revolves around the stories of two slaves that were chosen to be sold from good farmers for the sake of needing money to support the land on which the Kentucky farmers, Mr. Shelby and Mrs. Shelby, live on. Yet, things do not go to plan because Mrs. Shelby’s favorite maid, Eliza’s son Harry is one of the two chosen slaves to be sold which frightens Eliza and leads to a conflict of Eliza taking her and her son up north to Canada to be free with Eliza 's husband. The other slave to be sold is none other than Uncle Tom, who is a middle-aged man with a family on the farm. Between the two stories, the level of intensity is generally the same since Eliza and her son get chased down by a malicious group of slave hunters hired by Mr. Haley to capture her and Uncle Tom goes through two masters of different temperaments. One master by the name of Augustine St. Clare, was kind and caring towards his colored brethren, especially since Uncle Tom saved his angelic daughter Eva from drowning in a river while they were riding a boat (Stowe Chapter XIV). Since Eva and Uncle Tom had become friends, Eva begged her father to buy Uncle Tom to give Uncle Tom happiness. Thus, when Uncle Tom had gotten to the St. Clare house, he was well taken care of and cared for his dear friend Eva until one day Eva had become ill and died only to be followed by her father not too long after because Mr. St. Clare got stabbed and