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Summary Of Uncle Tom's Cabin

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One major life lesson I acquired from this unit is that emotions can sometimes get in the way and play a big part in the decisions people make. One case was when Harriet Tubman finally escaped slavery, but instead of fleeing farther away, she went back to the South to help others, including her family, escape via the Underground Railroad (WebQuest #3 - Slave Resistance). So someone, who had just barely gotten a taste of freedom herself, risked everything she had just worked hard for by going back to the South to save others. She could have just walked away and not looked back, but she knew what slavery was like and decided to help everyone still stuck in the system. Another case was when Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book called “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” to portray what slavery was actually like (WebQuest #4). …show more content…

This angered many people of the North and South, and because of this they started to write Anti-Tom books to show their differing perspective what slavery was like. Finally, there were the abolitionists who wanted an immediate end to slavery and were willing to try and get there (WebQuest #5). One abolitionist by the name of Prudence Crandall created a school to help educate African American children and continued to teach there even while the town threw rocks, raided, and even tried to burn down the school (WebQuest #5). Another named William Lloyd Garrison founded an Antislavery in America Society and created an antislavery newspaper called the Liberator to speak the truth about what slavery really was. Frederick Douglass, an African American, even had the guts to speak out about slavery to a room full of white people. All of these abolitionists used their thoughts and emotions and put them into action to put an end to slavery once and for

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