Charani Kamath Period 5

 A story about a slave named Uncle Tom.  Shows cruelty and wrongness of slavery.  Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.  First two owners Uncle Tom is sold to are nice.  Third owner is cruel.  Published in 1852.

 Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut.  Was born in a family and married to a man who believed in women’s rights and antislavery.  Got idea for Uncle Tom’s Cabin when she lived in Cincinnati and got first hand account of slavery since it was close to Kentucky, a slave state.  First book, The Mayflower, published in  She died on July 1, 1896 in Hartford, Connecticut.

 Loved the book.  Thought it portrayed the South perfectly by showing the inhuman way slaves were treated.  Increased the antislavery sentiments of abolitionists.  Abraham Lincoln’s response to Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin - "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!"

 Hated the book.  Accused it of charging the South falsely.  Published other books or writings that proved the South wasn’t bad.  Anti-Tom literature such as Aunt Phillis’s Cabin by Mary Henderson Eastman was published.

 Not very populated, so there were less opinions.  Proslavery people hated the book.  Antislavery people loved the book.  Started debates over whether territory should be a free state or slave state.

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