AMERICAN LITERATURE
ELIZABETHAN ERA
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as a pro- slavery argument
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the author was a runaway slave
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as a view point from Canada
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as propaganda against slavery
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Detailed explanation-1: -Through Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe communicates to readers that slavery is morally corrupt, by showing the wrong in slave owner’s actions, the struggles and heartaches slaves were put through, and how faith and religion ultimately contradicted all that slavery encompassed.
Detailed explanation-2: -Uncle Tom’s Cabin This abolitionist novel focused on the evils of slavery and was inspired by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act two years before, which punished those who aided runaway slaves. The book was highly controversial and fanned the debate over slavery in the country.
Detailed explanation-3: -But to many black people, the characters in Uncle Tom’s Cabin were insulting. Stowe’s vision of a passive, religious slave who, although he wanted freedom, didn’t want to rise above whites, is a good example of some of the assumptions white Northerners had about the meaning of black freedom.
Detailed explanation-4: -Uncle Tom’s Cabin was part of a large body of anti-slavery writing. Stowe borrowed from books by enslaved people including Josiah Henson, Lewis Clarke, and Solomon Northup. As a white woman, Stowe was seen as less threatening to white readers than Black abolitionists, helping her novel reach more readers.
Detailed explanation-5: -A major theme in Uncle Tom’s Cabin is the problem of slavery and the treatment of humans as property, concepts that Stowe counterbalanced against the morality of Christianity. Stowe’s depiction of slavery in her novel was informed by her Christianity and by her immersion in abolitionist writings.