“The two gigantic negroes that laid hold of Tom, with fiendish exultation in their faces might have formed no unapt personification of powers of darkness. The poor woman screamed with apprehension, and all rose, as by a general impulse, while they dragged him unresisting from the place.”(“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”). This was the life and struggle of a slave. This was the reason why slavery needed to end. Violence was necessary to abolish slavery because, slavery violated the constitution, the south was unwilling to give up slavery, something huge needed to happen in order for slavery to change, and the south claimed independence from the united states.
Slavery was the act of owning another person and forcing them to work without pay, this violated the constitution of the united states. This was the explanation why John Brown raided Harpers Ferry on October, 1869. “...[John Brown] was an old fashioned man in his respect for the constitution… slavery he deemed to be wholly opposed to these and was its determined foe,”(Thoreau). John Brown thought that owning another man violated the constitution, no matter if he was white or black. Fredrick Douglass even said that wasn't right, for what the fathers of the country wrote the land on, and that it only was
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He implied that there is no way that peaceful protest was going to solve this issue but a force that is so powerful to make them break out of slavery. Sojourner Truth also kinda hints the idea of there being a powerful force. “If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!”(Truth Sojourner). If something's going to change then there has to be a group of people, not just one person can change a law. that's why Sojourner Truth say’s that a group of people can make