What did the north think about the book 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?

Answer 1

Harriet Beecher Stowe chose a great time in history in which she published Uncle Tom's Cabin. It happened to be during the time of the passing of the Fugitive Slave Laws. The Fugitive Slave Laws were made because of all the slaves that were fleeing from the South and escaping to the North which was "free land." The Fugitive Slave Laws state that if any slaves have escaped to the North they must be captured by a Northerner and returned to the South. This infuriated the North even more. The South at first felt that Uncle Tom's Cabin was supportive of slavery because they felt as though someone had captured their beliefs of slavery and put it into a story that told the life of a slave master and a slave. The south believed that they were bettering the lives of the slaves and that they should have to right to make their own decisions. The North finally understood the evils of slavery. The South finally understood that Harriet was writing a book that went against their beliefs and led them to despise her. Despite her pleas to the South stating that she was not intentionally targeting them, but trying to give people a visualization of how awful and uncaring slavery is, the southerners still felt as though she was attacking at their way of life. The North supported Harriet greatly after the publishing of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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Here is my essay i had to write for school:

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Uncle Tom's Cabin Response

Prompt: Why did the novel Uncle Tom's Cabinhave such an impact on both the north and the south after being published in 1852?

Topic: The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin had such an impact on the north and the south after being published in1852 because it opened the eyes of all the people and stirred up such strong emotions, that it made both sides want to do something about what they believed.

Support: Uncle Tom's Cabin was written during the passing of The Fugitive Slave Laws, (which stated that if any slaves have escaped to the North, a Northerner must capture them and return them to the South)which then made the north even more infuriated after they read thenovel.

Illustration: In Harriet's book, she lays out 3 different plantations, (The Shelby's, The St. Clare's, and Simon Legree's) so the readers would understand all the different lifestyles of the slaves; Ms. Stowe uncovers the secrets the south was disguising in order that the north may believe that slavery wasn't so bad and that the slaves had good lives because they had plenty of food, a roof over their heads and "good treatment".

Relevance: The north finally understood the evils of slavery.

Support: The South was appalled when Harriet Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was published because they believed that they were bettering the lives of the slaves and that slaves should have had no right to make their own decisions, because they had no moral value or importance ;( therefore implying that blacks were not human).

Illustration: The writer shows this on Simon Legrees plantation, where Mr. Simon Legree slaps Tom, and orders him and all the slaves around as if they were dogs, along with the punishment Tom receives (for refusing to beat another slave); he was hung shirtless by his hands on a cross, (with rope, not nails)and flogged until practically dead.

Relevance: The southerners finally understood that Harriet was writing a book that went completely against their beliefs, revealing everything that the south had suppressed from the north for so long.

Conclusion: Dont have one yet