Who Is Uncle Tom's Cabin, By Harriet Beecher Stowe

Being a writer can be challenging. Being a female writer can be even more challenging. But being a female author who wrote a story on one of the most morally and socially controversial topics of that era is by far the most challenging. I’m Harriet Beecher Stowe, a supporter of the abolishment of the captivity and forced labor of Africans, as well as a very productive writer. I came from a family that was based on religion; my father was a Reverend. I’ve been writing since I was seven years old and I even attended Litchfield Female Academy, which was one of the first schools to encourage women to study academics. I married and settled down in Cincinnati where I pursued my love for writing which was fueled by sympathetic feelings for others.
Writing was the way to go. I could reach millions of people without opening my mouth. I I was hired to write a story for The National Era, a popular abolitionist newspaper. The story was titled Uncle Tom’s Cabin. My writing was released in installments, as I was only expected to write a short story. I ended up writing over forty passages and getting it published. I decided to “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” Uncle Tom’s Cabin follows an enslaved man by the name of Tom and a young enslaved boy called Harry. The pair is sold to a New Orleans family by a struggling farmer and his wife. In the meantime, Harry’s mom escapes to be with him. He’s her only living son. A living, loving, breathing human being is assigned a value in currency and sold as property. This is a common occurrence in the South. How? The slave owners see themselves as physically and evolutionarily superior. The treatment that comes from these claims literally kills African men. In chapter eighteen of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a heavily abused slave called Prue refuses to follow the Word of the Lord due to the influence of her captors. “I looks like gwine to heaven,’ said the woman; ‘an’t thar where white folks is gwine? S’pose they’d have me thar? I’d rather go to torment, and get away from Mas’r and Missis” (Beecher Stowe 313). Refusing Christianity is uncommon and frowned-upon. This poor woman has been abused so much by the “white folks” that she won’t associate with them in any way, even if it means refusing heaven. This passage was written to bring religion into the issue of slavery. Overall, my book was written to familiarize and personalize the issues of slavery that were being overlooked. How did my fellow Northerners not realize this was actually going on in their own country? Why don’t Southerners hold the opinion that all men are created equal? And my question for those