Harriet Beecher Stowe

Ar’n’t I a Woman was written in 1985 by Deborah Gray White, the Board of Governors Professor of History and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. This book is a very thought provoking read, one that opens a window into an America so drastically different than today, it almost seems a foreign land. White describes with great emotional fervency the strife endured by both Caucasian and African-American women, with specific consideration given to the plight of the enslaved…

During the time of the Civil War, women expanded their roles from being mainly focused on their homes and families to stepping up to help with the war effort for the first time in history. They had new responsibilities and priorities beyond being mothers and wives. Women contributed to the war effort supporting either the Union or Confederate army. Meanwhile in the North, women formed ladies’ aid societies in order to maintain supplies for the Union troops. For example, women provided food for…

Lady Godiva The piece that I picked to write about is the first life-sized marble figure accomplished by Anne Whitney, one of America’s well-known women sculptors that worked during the second half of the 19th century. Lady Godiva measures at 67x28x24 inches, the piece was seen on the fourth floor at Dallas Museum of Art on December 22, 2016. This long-forgotten statue was found in a Massachusetts-backyard and was later gifted to the Dallas Museum of Art by Dr. Alessandra Comini. As I walked…

To include female authors such as Stowe and Warner in the American Renaissance’s classically patriarchal canon is not simply a feat in terms of diversification, it is also an essential act in representing the contextual salience surrounding what America is, and what it has sought to change…

do with slavery. A book was published that showed many how slaves were treated, and how it was evil, and should be removed from our country. It was Harriet Beecher Stowe who published her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Stowe hoped that the book would open the eyes of the north of how slaves were treated. What she hoped for did happen. In 1862 when Stowe meet President Lincoln he was quoted to have said humorously, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this Great…

By writing her book, Stowe showed the world what she saw from a distance. She broadcasted the horrors of slavery. The way she did this was judged harshly by some. Although Stowe helped opened people 's eyes, her book also had some critics. Southerners believed that her account on slavery was one sided and was not fair. Stowe caused Southerners to get riled up. She also caused heated opinions in the North. Some strong abolitionists thought that Stowe’s work was not strong enough. They felt that…

The title of my book is Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin's story centers around the events in the lives of various slaves and their owners. The protagonist, a slave named Tom, is sold off to a slave trader and then bought into a wealthy family. Among the female members of the family are Marie and Ophelia St. Clare. Marie St. Clare is one of the story's flat characters, possessing attributes of laziness, selfishness, and self-mindedness. She is slow to put…

find ways around the Slave Act helping runaways. In response to the North, the South created the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 which penalized any individuals involved with helping runaways. It was this act that caused active abolitionist, Harriet Beecher Stowe, to write the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The novel showed the reality of slavery and what African-Americans had to go through during this time, and hit people so directly that many believe it to be a major cause of the Civil War. The book…

itinerant preacher, he along with his young family traveled across the south from Alabama to Texas. Pauline Jefferson “Pjay” wed Robert on Apr 14, 1886 in Yalobusha County, MS. Three children were born to Pauline and Robert: Pocahontas Adelaide, Harriet Beecher Stowe “Sweet”, and DeForest Carroll. The family was living in Dallas, Texas in 1900 but, just a short time later the family returned to Mississippi, where Robert died in early…

For example Uncle Tom’s Cabin written by Harriet Beecher Stowe was popular because it highlighted the facts and shed some light on what had been kept in the shadows by people who depended on slavery. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was originally going to a series of three or four telling a tale of slavery, but she…