Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Ethics (Ready Reference series))
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
The Work
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s bestselling novel was the most influential antislavery work published in the years just prior to the American Civil War. It was a direct response to the moral concessions in the Compromise of 1850, and particularly the Fugitive Slave Law, which required Northerners to return runaway slaves to their Southern owners. The novel also refuted some contemporary religious arguments that attempted to justify slavery through biblical evidence. Stowe was determined to expose slavery as antifamily and atheistic. She believed that the materialistic values...
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