The first slaves existed in Americas were Native Americans; they originally lived in the land but later due to the invasion of Spain, they were forced to work as slaves. Later, because of the huge depopulation of Native Americans, Spain and Portugal started to kidnap Africans and sent them to America and force them became the substitute of Native Americans. They were treated as properties and huge amount of Slave Codes were passed to regulate them. For thousands of years, philosophers were fighting for abolitionism; hope one day America can truly become a land of freedom. The book Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, is act as a calling for the masses to fight for abolitionism. The author, Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist herself. To express her claim, she created different kinds of characters to let them stand at various point of view. Through those characters, the audience could see the difference among normal people, abolitionists, and people who secretly support slavery. Without Stowe’s political objective – for abolitionism – the novel would be seemed as void and barren.
Back to the characters she made, they were a little too simple
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The profile of each character just stay at a bit below the surface. For instance, Evangeline St. Clare was a girl who was portrayed as an angelic girl who did not discriminated at the time of “White Superiority.” When Uncle Tom was worked in their house, he got the maximum freedom which was impossible for him at the outside world: he did not have an assigned working area, could wear properly, and Eva sometimes would spend her time have some fun with Uncle Tom. In addition, Eva used her love and tolerance to change Topsy to become a girl who believed herself not inferior and believed in freedom. Nonetheless, the way Harriet Beecher Stowe described the characters was essentially enough to narrate the whole story and different