Harriet Beecher Stowe

Slavery is a condition in which one human being is owned by another and is under the owner's control, especially in involuntary servitude. The history of slavery spans from every culture, nationality and religion and from ancient times to the modern times. However, the social, economic, and legal position of slaves was different in different systems of slavery in different times and places. Slavery can be defined as an institution based on a relationship of dominance and submission, whereby one…

Catharine Sedgwick was a prominent early 19th century female author. Growing up in Massachusetts as one of the youngest of ten children she was able to express herself through writing and reading. She admired scholarly and imaginative writers, such as, Edgar Allen Poe and James Fenimore Cooper. In 1827, her most successful work was Hope Leslie (Early Times in the Massachusetts). The book explores two volumes worth of drama Specifically, chapter 4 explores the moments before and the consequence…

Stowe was a pious daughter, sister, and wife of Congregationalist ministers and she epitomized the powerful religious underpinnings of the abolitionist movement. Her motivation for writing the novel was her disgust with the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. By…

The soldiers of the 22nd and 28th Iowa defined themselves as citizens fighting in the defense of the republic. Their political attitudes as expressed in their own extant letters and their newspaper of choice, the Iowa City Weekly Republican, provide motive for their killing of Butler’s bloodhounds. Historians have agreed that the United States Army of the American Civil War was a force of volunteer citizen-soldiers and were conscious of their role as a political weapon. A republican ideology…

Was the Civil War predictable? Did any events indefinitely cause the South to desire a split from the North? The North and the South had a growing tension between them for many reasons, and the northern abolitionists encouraged a Civil War through their actions of protest. Although many Americans were affected minimally by the changes of the nation, abolitionists inevitably foresaw a Civil War because the growing tensions between the North and the South became apparent in political and social…

would cease to exist. 3. California was to be entered as a free state. 4. Territorial government in Utah. 5. Settling of a boundary dispute between Texas and Mexico. Trailing behind the compromise was the publishing of Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe written in 1852. This anti-slavery novel was written to shed light on slavery and its effects on the families divided by it. It contributed to the beginning of the war by personalizing the political and economic disagreements regarding…

Slavery has long been the subject of heated debates between the north and the south. Slavery was a growing moral issue with many northerns. The gradual opposition of slavery in the north had been moving across the nation throughout the nineteenth century. Among the many underlying forces that brought out the opposition of slavery, the major forces surfaced. While political differences and the differing moral viewpoints of the northern and southern states led to the opposition of slavery, the…

In “The Federalist No. 10” James Madison, writing under the group pen name “Publius,” addresses the problematic role of factions in popular government in order to argue against a democracy and to offer up his solution of a republic. Defining a faction as “a number of citizens… united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community” (349), Madison contends that a “pure democracy”…

Is the lady trapped in the yellow wallpaper real? These are questions that haunt the narrator who is locked in a room with yellow wallpaper dealing her postpartum depression. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilman shows that we don’t like how freedom taken away from us especially, when you are dealing with depression. Along with the narrator dealing as if her feminism is stripped from her. Over a hundred years ago medication wasn’t available to treat depression like there is now so…

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is an example of early work of feminist literature for its illustration of attitudes toward physical and mental women’s health. The narrator of this piece is the wife of John, who is a physician. We follow her story as she is brought to an old estate by her husband due to her mental condition, which her husband labels as “temporary nervous depression-a slight hysterical tendency” (Gwynn, pg. 78). She is placed in a nursery where she is forbidden…