Summary Of David S. Reynolds's Mightier Than The Sword

The novel Mightier Than the Sword by David S. Reynolds, seemed to be a very recognizable novel written by an American at the time with a character driven story. The novel spoke about the evils of slavery. It appeared to some with its viewing of some kind southerners and evil northerners in the Americas. Stowe was part of a religious background like most Americans at this time “she was part of a prominent religious family that did more to undermine Calvinist orthodoxy” (pg. 1). The book itself for the most part is not seen as either a biography of Stowe or an exploration of her role with the struggles of slavery and abolition; it is more of a book telling a story of the American history and its culture at the time. Reynolds began his book within Stowe’s mind while she was living in Cincinnati in the 1830s, telling most of the story from her eyes and her encounters. Stowe wrote religious fiction novels “but she never claims that it came from divine inspiration” (pg.1), her stories were based off a new Bible as most saw it, where there was love and peace with whites and blacks, enslaved and the free. Her religion back round came from New England where she struggled against the Calvinistic doctrines. Her father was also a preachers and social reformer; his children were of mix of personalities. Harriet went

Both novels are based off freedom and slave owner ship, who is the correct American, who is doing right from wrong. Reynolds reveals that his novel is based off Stowe’s encounters; she is from a reform New England family where she captures all kinds of cultures in the Americas. Reynolds mentions through his writing of the way Stowe was and her encounter if this women contributed to the fracturing of the nation, and the starting of the Civil