Have you ever taken three things and tried to see how they are connected? Well, the Fugitive Slave Law, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and the abolitionist movement are connected. There are three reasons why; Uncle Tom’s Cabin made a reason to dislike slavery and become an abolitionist, the Fugitive Slave Law made the abolitionist movement grow stronger, and Uncle Tom’s Cabin was influenced by the Fugitive Slave Law.
The first reason why the Fugitive Slave Law, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and the abolitionist movement are connected is that Uncle Tom’s Cabin made a reason to dislike slavery and become an abolitionist. Reason being, in the book a person has to pay off a debt and sold his slave that he treated very well and the son of a house slave. In this case this made people mad in the way of this person sold a living human only for his own personal gain. So after people read Uncle Tom’s Cabin, they understand the words of Pres. Abraham Lincoln, “Slavery is a moral, political, and social wrong.”
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Fugitive Slave Law grew the population of the abolitionist because some free blacks were accused of being an escaped from the South. This was not fair to the free blacks that did not have the documents that stated that they were a free man or woman when the commissioner took them to a court.
The final reason why the Fugitive Slave Law, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and the abolitionist movement are connected is that Uncle Tom’s Cabin was influenced by the Fugitive Slave Law. The facts of Uncle Tom’s Cabin come from the daughter of an abolitionist, not only that, but the Fugitive Slave Law come before Uncle Tom’s Cabin was fully composed. Most likely Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist and wanted slavery to stop once and for all. That is a likely reason she wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, to change people’s heart about