USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In this novel, Stowe wants to show and criticize the materialistic value of slavery. Slaves were not treated as human beings, but as objects, property of other human beings who were considered to be superior to them. Slaves were seen by their owners as profit or loss, as mentioned above.

Detailed explanation-2: -Beecher met a number of African Americans who had suffered in those attacks, and their experience contributed to her later writing about slavery. Riots took place again in 1836 and 1841, driven also by native-born anti-abolitionists. Harriet was also influenced by the Lane Debates on Slavery.

Detailed explanation-3: -Having recently moved to Cincinnati with her family, Harriet Beecher visited the slave state of Kentucky in 1833, staying here at the Marshall Key House. While in Kentucky, she witnessed slavery up close for the first time.

Detailed explanation-4: -When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.