How did the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin inform people about the evil of slavery?

Answer 1

After being serialized by the newspaper "The National Era", the novel appeared in a volume that, at the end of a year 1851 sold 300,000 copies. From the literary point of view, the novel deserved the success that it received. Its author, Harriet Beecher Stowe had really given the world an immortal masterpiece of popular literature. The narrative wide and fruitful, the simplicity and power of images, the passionate heat of the book are undeniable. But if you look at the Uncle Tom's Cabin from the point of view under which it should not be considered (and that was instead that prevailing) that is a document, then the judgment has to change. Fitrst of all the author had never known the South or Southerners or slavery. By his own admission his sources of information were scarce and unreliable. Under the terms of the reality in being during that time the book is hardly reliable. Those who knew a little more the South and Southerners and Southern society described in the book had little to do with the real ones. Not because the author presented them in a difamatory shape. for example, the "bad guy" of the novel, Simon Legree was an Yankee immigrant. It simply attributed their caracters, issues and attitudes largely outside the South. A Southern lady, who examined the book without bias observed that it contained no more true facts about slavery than those contained in the nautical almanac.

But in the north, the volume had the effect of a match in a powder keg and helped to increase the misunderstanding between the two sections .. In the South it unleashed furious reaction and was considered by most of people as a deliberate distortion of Southern life and custom.

Answer 2

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" informed people about the evil of slavery by vividly depicting the inhumane treatment of slaves, the separation of families, and the moral conflicts faced by individuals involved in the system. Through its emotional storytelling, the novel garnered sympathy for enslaved individuals and helped to galvanize support for the abolitionist movement.