Summary Of Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe

Slavery is a spectacle that people have argued, fought over, and even died for in America’s past and present times. A topic of sore thumb, this is not a subject that people easily dismiss. If there were ever to be a sensational book that brings slavery back to life yet also proclaims its immorality, it would “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in the North United States in 1852. Originally written in response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, it created a rippling effect much larger than initially foreseen. These effects are seen throughout the story through the characters of Uncle Tom, George, Eliza and all the other characters that represented the life of a slave during this time period. It spread first across New England, then to the

She was one of 13 children born to a leading Calvinist minister, Lyman Beecher, who was committed to social justice. Lyman took a strong abolitionist stance following the pro-slavery Cincinnati Riots of 1836. His attitude reinforced the abolitionist beliefs of his children, including Stowe. All of these things took effect on Stowe later in life eventually leading up to the writing of her novel. We see her stance on the topic of slavery in a letter she wrote to her children Twenty-five years afterward the publication of the novel that reads, “I will remember the winter you were a baby and I was writing Uncle Tom's Cabin. My heart was bursting with the anguish excited by the cruelty and injustice our nation was showing to the slave, and praying God to let me do a little, and to cause my cry to be heard. I remember many a night weeping over you as you lay sleeping beside me, and I thought of the slave mothers whose babes were torn from them’” (Phelps). This clearly implies that the topic lay closely to her heart as both a mother and a human being. And luckily her cry on the behalf of all slaves in the 19th century was heard across the