Power of Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe :: Uncle Toms Cabin

The Effective Story in Uncle Toms Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe, a northern abolitionist, published her best-selling allegory Uncle Toms Cabin in 1852. Uncle Toms Cabin contracts the many different attitudes that southerners as well as northerners shared towards thralldom. Generally, it shows the evils of slavery and the severeness and inhumanity of the peculiar institution, in particular how masters treat their slaves and how families are torn asunder because of slavery. The novel centers around a pious slave, Uncle Tom, and how he is exchange over and over again. It shows the different attitudes that Toms masters share about slavery, and how their slaves should be treat. It also teaches Christian values as well as family values. At the time of its publication, Uncle Toms Cabin was an immediate success and one of biggest sellers of all time. Despite the fact that Stowe induces her own personal opinions, with the very miniature experience she has had with slaves, she deliver s a magnificent novel which is still enjoyed by many modern readers today. The time of her novels publication was very important. It was published at the peak of the abolitionist movement, in the 1850s. It proved to be very effective propaganda for the abolitionist cause, which Stowe openly supported. Stowe is trying to prove to the reader that slavery is wrong and slide fastener short of evil and cruel. She does an effective job at proving her point, while delivering a superb novel at the same time. Stowe is constantly tying to prove that slavery is evil. She opens the novel, by showing two slave owners, making a business deal. Mr. Shelby is in debt to Haley, so he must sell Uncle Tom and Harry, tearing them apart from their families. Stowe shows a young slave woman, Eliza and her affection for her son Harry, when she decides to take her son and run away. This disputes the common belief of the time that slaves mothers has less affection for their youth than flannel women. Uncle Tom is sold again to the carefree Augustine St. Clare whos philosophy is Why save time or money, when theres plenty of both? Uncle Tom receives good treatment at the St. Clares, which proves that the novel is not one-sided, showing that their where kind slave owners. However Uncle Tom is sold again, this time up the Red River to the devil Simon Legree.