Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Belle is identified as a courageous who about the 230 slaves who were killed for insurance money. John Davinier and Belle work together to fight against racial injustice. These two character fight against the political view and discrimination to educate and empower the British society on slavery. Belle uses herself as an example to question Lord Mansfield authority, and she says, “You’ll not abandon my people as I am one of them as well. Unless you never truly loved me?” (Jones).

When George returns home, he tells Tom's wife what happened and sets up papers to free all of his slaves. He tells his slaves that whenever they see Uncle Tom's old cabin, they must think of Tom and of their freedom. From this storyline, Harriet Beecher Stowe uses the power of her novel to persuade the public of her beliefs concerning the evilness of slavery, the power of Christianity, and the influence of women. One of Stowe's beliefs, which is strongly illustrated, is the wickedness surrounding slavery. ... ... middle of paper ... ...her, and was raised a Presbyterian with Christian values.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a deeply symbolic narrative depicting the lives of a group of black slaves in southern America and the slave owners and slave hunters that followed them through their lives. Author Harriet Beecher Stowe, a white woman, uses her striking narrative to raise philosophical and moral questions about the implications of the institution of slavery in mid-19th century America. Her novel touches on the limits of the human spirit and the common human connection that brings together all people, whites, blacks, men and women alike. Her work was designed and intended to shock and horrify readers with its blatant and vivid descriptions of the atrocities that blacks endured during this both, both free and enslaved alike. Her work was written after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which made aiding any fugitive slave a federal crime.

As she stated, slavery is de-constructive to all who surround it. It tears apart families; not just families raised in slavery, but the master's family as well. How could the free men and women of the north remain silent while such a great atrocity is still in practice? Brent confronts her reader one on one in order to reemphasize her point. She uses the family and sentiment to appeal to and challenge the 19th century white women reader in order to effectively gain their support in the movement for abolition.

A victim is a person who is embittered or tricked by someone else ("Victim - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary"). Victims of slavery are induced into slave-like corruption through deception, force or coercion. The enslaved are subjec... ... middle of paper ... ...were obligated to fulfill. The main purpose for Harriet Jacobs writing ILSG is to attack the specific role that slavery has played on African American lifestyles, also how the institutionalization of slavery permits a degrading behavior that has a negative impact on all African Americans. The special effects of slavery are due to the fact that when slaves were eventually freed they were not given any reintegration or help to be accustomed into the mainstream of society.

Sophia Auld, once such a kind and caring woman, is transformed into a cruel and oppressive slave owner over the course of the narrative. Thomas Auld, also. Douglass ties this theme back to the main concern of authorial control. Although this is a personal account, it is also a tool of propaganda, and is used as such. Douglass’s intent is to convince readers that the system of slavery is horrible and damaging to all included, and thus should be abolished completely.

Sojourner’s children were all sold off to slavery. She suffered a lot from this because she knew that her children were going to be broken, a term used by white slave masters to strip a slave of th... ... middle of paper ... ...his helped improve slave and women movements. Sojourner was able to effectively captivate her audience’s attention with the multiple rhetorical devices she used. She delivered a powerful and meaningful message that was well accepted and understood by the audience. She appeals to her audience emotionally through her personal experiences, allusions to the Bible, repetition, and rhetorical questions to accomplish her message of the unfair treatment to women and slaves.

Frederick Douglass and Harriet Ann Jacobs were both born into slavery and both shared their stories with the world. Like all slave stories, Douglass’s and Jacobs’s works express the tension between conflicting motives that produced autobiographies of slave life. The need to achieve the most important goal, an end to slavery, took the author’s back to the world that had enslaved them. Their stories had to provide truthful reproductions of both places and experiences of the past they had escaped. White abolitionist advised slave writers to adhere to precise rules and methods to produce what they saw as one of the most powerful propaganda arguments against slavery.

Written by Harrold Stanley, American Abolitionists is a book that scrutinizes the movement of abolishing slavery in the United States. It examines the movement from its origin in the 18century in the course of the Civil War and the elimination of slavery in 1856. American Abolitionists book focuses on the American Abolitionists who struggled to end slavery and advocated for equal rights for all African Americans in the United States. Harrold mainly focuses his book on the abolitionist movement and the effect of slaves on its expansion. The book uncovers how abolitionist fought for the end of slavery and how they contributed to the coming of the Civil War.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs strongly speaks to its readers by describing the brutalities of slavery and the way slave owners can destroy peaceful lives. After reading and rereading the story have noticed certain things regarding how Jacobs tries to educate her readers and her intended audience which is the women of the North. As if we do not know enough about how terrible slavery is, this story gives detailed examples of the lives of slaves and provokes an incredible amount of emotions. She uses several tactics in her writing to reach her desired audience and does so very well. The way she wrote the story does not seem as though she is emotionally connected.