Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- First Published: 1851
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: African Americans, Segregation or integration, Freedom, Values, Suffering, Africa or Africans, Mothers, Parents and children, Love or romance, Race, South or Southerners, Superstition, Escapes, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Religion, Underground railroad, Faith, Cruelty, Morality or morals, Sacrifice
- Locales: New Orleans, LA, Kentucky, Ohio, Mississippi River, Liberia
Although Stowe was both attacked and lauded by her contemporaries for her exposure of the evils of slavery and Southern injustice, her purpose seems to have been larger: to indict the nation for its inadequate efforts to improve life among “the lowly.” On the one hand, Simon Legree, the brutal slavemaster, is a New Englander who has gone South only to indulge in his baser instincts. On the other hand, St. Clare, the benign slaveowner, is an ineffectual but morally sensitive Southerner forced to split apart a black family because of his economic losses.
Standing in the middle...
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