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    Uncle Tom’s Cabin is an anti-slavery novel that brought about a great social change. According to Henderson 2009, it had such an influential impact on the Civil War, in which slavery was abolished. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Christian attitude reflected most of her attitude towards slavery. She believed slavery was very unchristian like and harsh. Stowe’s novel concentrated on many hardships slaves had to endure. She wrote the book to be a power against slavery. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is one of the…

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    The intrinsic ideas of Slavery and Christianity - two important factors that go throughout the history of Unite State - are actually incompatible with each other. Stowe has present the incompatibility of these ideas in her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by showing creating vivid figures and telling cliff-hang story. Vivid figures of both Christian and slave serve to reveal the contradiction of slavery and Christianity. To create the vivid figures, the most common method used by the author is the…

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    Mightier than the sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle of America is about Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin became such a big deal. It tells the reader how this book contributed to the events leading up to the civil war. The book is also known for its consequential content. David Reynold book is not a biography or a description of Stowe’s struggles. It’s a book itself that goes through the time of Stowe’s birth to the present day. Reynold’s says the Uncle Tom’s Cabin sparked…

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    slavery’” (Stowe 229). Slavery was deceptive which points back to the underlying theme that slavery is inherently evil and immoral. Deception was used in many forms so slave masters could get more out of their slaves. Relating specifically to slavery in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, it was deceptive because the slave was often bribed with time off or their masters writing letters to the family members left behind in exchange for more work being completed. Throughout the book, deception is used to push…

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    In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Stowe writes to Northerners and Christians to provide a realistic picture of slavery deep in the South. Upon hearing of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 where it made the act of assisting a runaway slave illegal, Stowe realized that she needed to show Northerners and other readers the necessity of ending slavery by revealing the horrors of it (Ch. 45). Through meaningful character stories and passion, Harriet Stowe shows the source of the darkness of slavery while…

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    In Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author communicates to the reader that the inhumane institution of slavery must be eradicated. The author expresses this argument by demonstrating the importance of honest Christian morale, clearly showing effects of oppression on slaves, and laying out the negative impacts slavery has on American society. Stowe heavily incorporated her beliefs throughout the novel and indicated that true Christian ethics are needed to overcome slavery. In the…

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    this highlights the controversy of Walker’s art because of its ability to represent black art by not be as radically transformative. English advocates for black art to debunk whiteness in order to platform blackness. For example, the piece of work Uncle Tom’s Cabin highlights the sugarcoating of slavery, in which it dilutes the actual reality and violence through art. The drawing of the overpowering tree signifies the reliance of a slave-based society as being a driving factor of progress and…

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    Uncle Tom's Cabin Impact

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    Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe generated friction between the North and the South, and it helped initiate the civil war. Harriet Beecher Stowe throughout her novel wanted to portray the evils of slavery so a large part of the American society could relate to the issue, and being able to do just as she had hoped the novel changed the opinions of numerous Northerners towards slavery (Ushistory.org).“So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war…

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    of the people around the world, which help people to see signs of hope, inspired people to fight. Ba Jin’s literature is a splendid literary legacy of Chinese nation. The power of words not only showed in the age of war, but also in the peace age. Uncle Tom’s Cabin wrote by Harriet Beecher Stowe plays a important role in the movement of abolitionist and the American Civil War. Silent Spring wrote by Rachel Carson called attention to environmental issues and caused DDT to be made illegal that…

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    I'd like to go into more detail about Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel ¨Uncle Tom's Cabin¨. She decided to put her ideas as an abolitionist and an author together and create something for people to understand the true struggles of slavery and how terrible it was. One day at church Harriet was listening to an anti-slavery speech…

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