Harriet Beecher Stowe's main idea for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin was to force people to not turn their backs on the horrible lives of the slaves. She wants to make all of the Northeners actually do something about slavery instead of them just saying that they want it to stop. You can tell that she strongly wants this to happen because, she says, "Do you say that the people of the free state have nothing to do with it, and can do nothing?" She tries to make people do something about it by telling them specifically what they can do. "There is one thing that every individual can do,—they can see to it that they feel right." Her morals and faith didn't allow her to belive in slavery and she didn't want other God loving people to either. "from the