Uncle Tom's Cabin And The Testimony Of Sarah M.

In both sources, Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Testimony of Sarah M. Grimke on Slavery, the authors illustrate their negative view of slavery. In the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” Harriet Stowe explains why she views slavery as immoral and in her book, she changes the way slaves are viewed. She does this by making the main character in her book, Tom, a slave who in the end is the hero. In the “Testimony of Sarah M. Grimke on Slavery”, Sarah Grimke explains the reasons she left her home state of South Carolina. She also tells readers that she disconnected with her family because of their cruel behavior toward their slaves. In both documents the authors describe how and why they see slavery negatively. In the early nineteenth century, author Harriet Stowe was born into an influential and religious family. Her father, Reverend Beecher, helped “shift from the established churches of the colonial period to the new era of denominational competition”. Growing up in the free state of Maine, Stowe was not accustomed to the harshness of slavery. It wasn’t

She was raised in a slave holding family and her father was a justice of the Supreme Court. As Grimke grew up she saw firsthand the harsh life slaves were subjected to daily. Grimke did not agree with her family’s view on slavery. She decided to leave her home because she could not stand how harsh her family was treating the slaves. As she traveled Grimke began to write a narrative. She wrote “As I left my native state on account of slavery, and deserted the home of my fathers to escape the sound of the lash and the shrieks of tortured victims”, proving that she did in fact leave because of her slave holding family. When Grimke left South Carolina, she moved north and joined the Quakers. This was a religious group that spoke out against slavery. This group gave Grimke a way to speak up for slaves and later in life it led her to speak out on other critical issues, such as women’s