After reading Harriet Beecher Stowe book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” raises the question that people ask themselves, do we agree with Abraham Lincoln’s comment upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe during the American Civil War that she was “the little women who wrote the book that started this Great War?” Just this one quote is so strong because, if you’ve read this book you would agree with me that this book did help start the war even though I think she wrote the book in response to the strengthening of the Fugitive Slave Act under the Compromise of 1850. So if you haven’t read the book I’ll try my best to introduce the author and tell you why I agree with Lincoln’s comment about Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book is true. Harriet Beecher Stowe was born …show more content…
Stowe started writing when she was little, and started with travel books, children’s book, and poems, and eventually writing adult novels. The first adult novel that she wrote and published was Uncle Tom’s Cabin. After the Fugitive Slave Law was passes in 1852, Harriet Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a controversial book that Ms. Stowe wrote about her feeling on slavery. This story focuses on the bad reality of slavery and Uncle Tom the main character, a suffering black slave whose Christian love and faith overcame enslavement. Many Northerners saw the Fugitive Slave Act as a violation of their personal freedoms. Northerners were forced to miss their jobs and leave their families just to take back the runaway slave back to their master. But the thing is that, they didn’t have choice unless they wanted jail time and/or pay the thousand dollar fine. Uncle Toms Cabins includes a slave family Eliza, George, and Harry Harris who were running away in order to keep their son. Some Northerners were mad because they didn’t want to leave their life anyways, and to let it destroy another family was completely against their will. To show the Northerner how evil some of the slave owners are and even showed how many slave owners are and even showed how slave owners don’t care about their slave’s health, Ms. Stowe included Simon Leguie. She adds that Simon said, “That if a slave gets sick that he would jest let them die and get a new one. She also says Simon