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    this year. Abolitionists, such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Northerners saw slavery as a moral detriment that was against Christianity. Southern states saw slavery as a financial gain and a political advantage, Harriet Beecher Stowe uses her novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, published in 1850, to combat the morality of slavery and the Fugitive Slave Act, also established in 1850. The Fugitive Slave Act required every citizen in the United States to report and return escaped slaves to the South; the…

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    In Harriet Beecher Stowe 's novel “Uncle Tom 's Cabin”, Stowe strongly emphasizes the importance and necessity to abolish slavery in the South and the support for the abolitionists in the North. Stowe articulates the importance and necessity to abolish slavery by demonstrating the dehumanization process of both the slaveholder and slave. The consequences of the slave system affects both the slave owner and slave but the most dehumanized is the slave owner because they obligated to hardened…

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    Uncle Tom’s Cabin has been called many things: the novel that started the Civil War and the most important piece of American literature among them. It tells the story of a slave named Uncle Tom whose journey through many owners, abuses, and hard times is amassed in a strong rhetorical piece of abolitionist writing. Despite its massive influence, very little dramatization of the novel has taken place. There is, to date, one play and one black and white movie made of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. This is for…

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    to someone more powerful. Slavery is seen as an unethical action due to how it exploited and degraded human beings, and left a legacy of discrimination. Slave trade ships were used as business cargos of human trafficking. Literature works such as Uncle Tom’s Cabin were important influences for citizens because it compared and contrasted the lifestyle of a slave versus the slave-owner. The Slave Pen had visitors expressed disgusted faces at the sight of slave auctions and holding pens in the…

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    During the time of The Civil War of 1861, the differing political and ethical options of the northerners and southerners created the debate discussing the institution of slavery. This disagreement is represented by Uncle Tom’s Cabin by, Harriet Beecher Stowe, by using the characters Simon Legree and Tom to symbolize the opinions of the North and South showing their political and ethical viewpoints. The beginning of the Civil War was started by the growing tensions between the North and South 's…

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    Harriett Beecher Stowe wrote the story “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”. This novel sold tons of copies. Stowe tells a story that allows the North to read it and have a feeling of what was happening in the South with all the slavery going on. Stowe found a powerful way to really express how she felt about slavery. The story opens up to two gentlemen, Mr. Shelby and Mr. Harry talking about a business trade. Mr. Shelby lives on a farm in Kentucky and is a slave owner, he is facing financial problems right now…

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    In the novel Mightier than the sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America the author David S. Reynolds, discusses his strong opinion of the groundbreaking book Uncle Tom's Cabin. The author David S. Reynolds is an influential American literary critic and professor that has won many awards such as the the Bancroft Prize, the Christian Gauss Award, the Ambassador Book Award, the Gustavus Myers Book Award, the John Hope Franklin Prize. The author believes that “no book in American history…

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    In Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Cassy and Eliza’s escape stories from slavery are explicitly explained in thorough detail. Eliza begins at the Shelby plantation in Kentucky, and makes her way to Canada after hearing about the selling of her son Harry. Cassy is introduced at Legree’s plantation in Louisiana and plans her escape after having enough of the terrible torture that Legree put her through and Tom’s refusal to kill him. Both women derive from two…

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    Uncle Tom’s Cabin and its Flaws In James Baldwin’s essay titled “Everybody’s Protest Novel” Baldwin analyzes how Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is solely written to expose the evils of slavery and by doing that she has created a morally flawed novel that directly reflects the morality of human nature. Baldwin points out that Stowe’s novel is full of stereotypes that society is slow to find the truth behind. Baldwin proposes the question, “How is it that we are so loath to…

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    Through Fictional Both Beloved and Uncle Tom’s Cabin Share Blatantly Similarities Thus Sparking Argue mental Debate It seems obvious that both Beloved and Uncle Tom’s Cabin share blatant similarities even though these are two entirely different stories. More than at least one hundred years separates both novels. In the story of Beloved by Toni Morrison there happens to be a married couple named Mr. Mrs. Garner. They both happen to have own slaves whose names are Paul F., Halle, Paul A., and…

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