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Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom Cabin
1,260 words"So you " re the lady whose book started this great war. " Abraham Lincoln said this to Harriet Beecher Stowe upon meeting her in 1862. This quote shows the great influence the novel had on the minds of its readers and on a nation in turmoil. At the height of racial tension in nineteenth century America, Stowe revealed the sufferings and hardships the slave was forced to endure. Stowe used passionate and sometimes exaggerated thoughts and stories in the book in an effort to prompt abolitionist a...
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Uncle Tom Cabin The Slave Trade
1,476 words... the varying degrees of evil as depicted in Uncle Toms Cabin. Not only did Harriet Beecher Stowe have inaccuracies in the public perception of traders, but also she also over exaggerated the evil in traders. For example, she has made Haley, the one trader that we have substantial contact with in the play a very bad trader. He as well as the auctioneers in the last part of the book, are both seen as the absolute bottom of the industry. Haley is a man close to the worst type of negro-trader in ...
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