SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
UNCLE TOMS CABIN
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Never give up
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Never let someone tell you what to do
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Many enslaved people were pried from the comfort of the earth to be placed upon the trench that is a plantation
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Greed is the main evil force
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -In sum, Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin widened the chasm between the North and the South, greatly strengthened Northern abolitionism, and weakened British sympathy for the Southern cause. The most influential novel ever written by an American, it was one of the contributing causes of the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-3: -Uncle Tom’s Cabin tells the story of Uncle Tom, an enslaved person, depicted as saintly and dignified, noble and steadfast in his beliefs. While being transported by boat to auction in New Orleans, Tom saves the life of Little Eva, an angelic and forgiving young girl, whose grateful father then purchases Tom.
Detailed explanation-4: -The theme of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, then, is the conflict between the evil of slavery and the good of Christian love. Eva, symbolic of this sort of love, is killed (mythically) by slavery, but like Tom, she triumphs over death and thus over evil.