Summary Of Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Harriet Beecher Stowe is American abolitionist and author/narrator addressing her readers directly by using these phrases like “Dear Reader” or “you” because she wants the readers to feel something emotionally about the cause of slavery and humanity. Uncle Tom’s Cabin talks about how evil slavery is, and morally wrong for humans as someone’s property. Still, Stowe believes that Christianity will bring out the best in others, to see and feel what the slave must endure just to have freedom. Therefore, she wants the nation to read about the hardship of slaves, how they were treated, raped and separated from their family. She wanted people, especially white Christian women to put themselves in the place of this black slave woman, and imagine how they feel if their family was taken away if you were a mother and experience this kind of pain, where is your Christian values and love.
Furthermore, Stowe was a religious lady and lost her young son which readers believed is why she shows empathy for the slaves and their harsh lives and it is very evident in her writing style in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Then, she addresses the reader forcing them to feel the real effects of slavery. Also, Stowe wanted the northerners to feel something about the harsh reality and cruelty about slavery in the south. …show more content…
In fact, having close ties with the slaves she could go deep into the mental state of readers by asking questions that under no circumstances would the reader ever have to face, on any day. For the most part much credit is given to Stowe for using such a great concept to propel slave literature, but it came at a great price because of the loss of her son. This creates readers’ opinion that slavery was evil and needed to change and morally wrong if you had any Christian values for the
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