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Harriet Beecher Stoowe Summary

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Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin .The National Era & John P. Jewett and Company March 20, 1852 A famous novel fueled by so much controversy that it made the great President Abraham Lincoln take notice in it so much that he had to confront the author and when he finally did in the year of 1862 Lincoln had told her “So you’re the little lady who wrote the book that made this Great War? ” This controversial novel was written by American abolitionist and author Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe. Harriet wrote this novel with the purpose in trying to inform the northern states about the issues occurring in the south due to the fact that both the north and south had little communication with each other leaving the entire nation divided and …show more content…

An excellent example of this would be a slave by the name of Fredrick Douglass in his narrative book he mentions how he was separated from his mother at birth “My mother and I were separated when I was but an infant- before I knew her as my mother. It is a common custom in the part of Maryland from which I ran away, to part children from their mothers at a very early age . This slave had gone through the same thing that henry would’ve gone through if it wasn’t for Henrys brave mother whom decided to run and escape. In the novel the author mentions how Eliza the mother of Henry over hears the couple argue how her owner had to sell her son and how Eliza decides to take off into the night with her son. “A last few words and tears, a few simple adieus and blessings and clasping her wondering and affrighted child in her arms, she gilded noiselessly away .” She wouldn’t be the first nor would the last slave whom ran away from the white slave owners; others would run too in their search for …show more content…

Where would all of these runways go to? You may wonder well most of them would run off to Canada in the novel of Uncle Tom’s Cabin that’s where Eliza planned to travel to because due to the fugitive slave act slaves were forced to not just run to the north but they had to travel away from the country into Canada or even Mexico.in the novel Eliza mentions “and when I get to Canada where the laws will own me and protect me, that shall be my country and its laws I will obey.

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