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Analysis Of Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The most influential war of American History was the Civil War between the Union (North) and the Confederates (South). Many people believe the Civil War was a result of wanting the Slaves freed. On the contrary, the Civil War was caused by many events such as; Uncle Tom’s Cabin, John Brown’s Raid, The Kansas-Nebraska Act, and The Dred Scott Decision. All of these events impacted the acceleration towards Civil War, but Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of the most impactful of all the events. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a novel written by an abolitionist who wanted the truth of Slavery to be shared. Uncle Tom’s Cabin brought light to the slavery situation causing the North to finally realize how terrible slavery was. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was more impactful than the other events because it finally brought the Northern peoples who were on the fence about the coming of a war into the loop of wanting to free the African Americans. The oncoming Civil War was …show more content…

John Brown’s Raid was another event that was slightly more impactful than the others because John Brown as an individual made the South believe Northerner’s would do whatever it took to stop slavery and they wouldn’t have their Southern “rights” violated. John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry was from October 16th to October 18th, 1859. John Brown lead series of rebellions and on these days, John Brown and his supporters went to the town of Harpers Ferry. Brown hoped slaves and abolitionist would join in and supply weapons in his fight, he was wrong. Soldiers under the command of Robert E. Lee were sent in, they killed a plethora of raiders and captured Brown. Brown was charged with treason against the state of Virginia and sentenced to death. This raid made Southerners believe the Northerners would do whatever it took to free their slaves. This rose tension between the confederate and union

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Meanwhile some politicians asked for the right to annul the federal distractions in some way or another, the anti-slavery idea was an ideology that became a manifest with Harriet Beecher Stowe’s publication of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”. Which “was characterized in the central crime of slavery as the destruction of slave families through sale and violence” (AH 445) Economic inequality also took its share in the causes of this war since the plantation of the south, which was based on cotton, depended on a great deal of the work of the slaves and they opposed the application of the protectionist policies that ruined their economy and chose to defend slavery. While on the other hand the north was already industrialized and slavery did not make sense since this area was already more developed and was seen in a very negative way by its own population. In the year 1860 after the presidential election number 19 in the United States, where Abraham Lincoln and John C. Breckinridge fought for victory. Both sides,

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And there’s no denying that the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin had helped opposition to slavery come into the political mainstream in the North. So while it would be an exaggeration to say that Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel directly caused the Civil War, there’s no doubt that Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by helping to shape public opinion in the 1850s, was indeed a factor leading to the war. The publication of Uncle Tom 's Cabin coupled with the offensive and invasive nature of the Fugitive Slave Act 1850, changed northerners so they could no longer view slavery with a disconnected view. Slavery was no longer a Southern issue that had no impact on the life of those in the north. I feel this is a strong point supporting the famous quote of little woman that started the Great

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On October 16, 1859, John Brown along with twenty-one men (five blacks and sixteen white) are going to capture the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, the reason was all in the name of abolishing slavery. The idea was that once the town was captures, slaves would come and join the up rise. This guerilla war started with two men cutting the town’s telegraph lines. Two men to remain behind for supplies and to arm the slaves. “The others seized a rifle works, the armory, and three hostages, including a local planter descended from the Washington Family” (Davidson & Lytle, p. 150).

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This also made childhood unheard of. From the day they are born they are tossed around and shown the hard life they would grow up in. Schooling was not an option for the young slaves. The closest they’d get to an education was reading, and that’s if they were taught in secret. Uncle Tom slowly learned how to read from the little girl he was serving for.

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These events were led by John Brown and ultimately resulted in the tragic deaths of many of his abolitionist

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One of whom was John Brown, an abolitionist who led several men to kill proslavery settlers in Laurence, Kansas in 1856. The brutality and severe deaths of this massacre became known as “Bleeding Kansas” (Lapansky-Werner336). Three years later, Brown attempted to lead a slave revolt in Harper’s Ferry. Although he suspected that this would inspire many slaves, his revolt was a failure due to the lack of abolitionists willing to fight beside him. Despite the fact that Brown’s life ended in execution, he did influence others that agreed with the fact that slavery would not come to an end “without very much bloodshed” (Lapansky-Werner344-345).

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