1 Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America The Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle of America book is an outstanding and influential book of the American history. It’s a fascinating book that critically looks at several culture roots, enduring legacy and political impacts of the American leadership. According to Reynolds analysis, he comments that ‘Harriet’s Beecher’s store book expresses a lot of impacts to not only the movements of abolition, but also to the worldwide current events happening in several nations’. The novel in its analysis and context addresses a lot of themes that the author uses to express her idea to the readers. The major themes used by the author directly reveal the major evils that took place in America during that …show more content…
After its publication, the book created a lot of impact among the supporters of the issues it addressed and to the critics at the time. It is noted that this book was an element that initiated the war in America. ‘During the author’s moment with the president Abraham Lincoln, the president was heard commenting on her book as the cause of the war’[4]. This book made several supporters who were against slavery to come out physically to fight the practice. This later led to the outbreak of war based on political and economic arguments of slavery. Most liberal abolitionist critics felt that the novel was not standing strong in its fight against slavery. ‘They were never convinced by the authors’ support to the movements of colonization and therefore, they were no happy with the way the author used the character Tom to express the issue in a forceful way’. On the other side, the supporters of anti-slavery were much happy with the novel and praised it for creating a human face on most slaves held in camps. They emphasized on the effects of slavery to most families and possibly addressed the plight of mothers who were enslaved. Besides, the book is still paused to have several impacts on most historical figures who dealt with the issues of slavery. For instance, the abolitionist,