LITERATURE QUESTIONS
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
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Stowe’s novel is sentimental.
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Stowe describes the treatment of slaves.
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Stowe describes the escape of slaves.
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin was used by abolitionists.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Slave narratives were a central part of the abolitionist movement because they allowed African Americans to expose the brutalities they faced through slavery. Slave narratives put a name and a face to the victims of slavery, helping people realize the true cruelty of the institution.
Detailed explanation-2: -Abolitionist author, Harriet Beecher Stowe rose to fame in 1851 with the publication of her best-selling book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which highlighted the evils of slavery, angered the slaveholding South, and inspired pro-slavery copy-cat works in defense of the institution of slavery.
Detailed explanation-3: -Some former slaves, such as Douglass and Brown, wrote their narratives themselves. But many were illiterate, and so dictated their stories to abolitionists. The slave narratives provided the most powerful voices contradicting the slaveholders’ favorable claims concerning slavery.
Detailed explanation-4: -Born into slavery, Harriet Jacobs would thwart repeated sexual advancements made by her master for years, then run away to the North. She would later publish an account of her anguished life in her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Harriet’s childhood was a happy one.