How To End Slavery In Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the novel titled Uncle Tom's Cabin, grew up in Litchfield Connecticut, a non slave state, and was raised by an Lyman Stowe, an abolitionist minister. Harriet, while basing her entire book off of the atrocities in the south, she herself did not live or personally witness the gross mistreatment of the southern slaves. Stowe was not qualified to write this novel seeing as she did not witness the actual life of a southern slave, however, her novel had a major impact in the course of American events. Stowe's novel helped the American abolitionist movement gain more ground and even helped to bring about the war to end slavery. While Stowe may not be entirely qualified to write such a book, she did write an excellent novel that did a exceptional job at putting the souther abomination that is slavery in the spotlight for all to bear witness to. This novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, holds many …show more content…
While the South is often seen a being entirely pro slave and the north as being pro abolitionist and wanting to help the slaves, this novel does an amazing job at putting both of these misconceptions to rest. While many Southerners supported slavery, there was a large section of the population that did not believe in slavery, nor supported it past the idea of state rights. Stowe shows this by demonstrating that not all of the slave owners were cruel and that many non owners supported freeing the slaves. While in the north, the runaway slaves were still not safe due to the passing of the fugitive slave law. Alongside the laws for buying the northerners from helping, many of their own biases and prejudices stopped them from helping. This is very interesting to see that Stowe did not depict that North a a true Abolitionist paradise, nor a slaves oasis, but rather a stopping point until they reach Canada, the only place they were truly