Uncle Tom's Cabin - Fiction as a Catalyst for Fact
The Origins of a Living Document
Stage Night
North and South Polarized: Critics Respond
The Abolitionist Debates
The Tom Caricature
The Greatest Impact
The Origins of a Living Document
In her own words, Harriet Beecher Stowe was compelled to pen Uncle Tom's Cabin "....because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw, because as a Christian I felt the dishonor to Christianity -because as a lover of my country, I trembled at the coming day of wrath."1 Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut on June 14th, 1811. Her strong moral convictions may be attributed to the fact that she was raised as the daughter of a well-known Congregationalist minister, Lyman Beecher.
Harriet was the seventh of nine children, which certainly implies an instilled sense of tolerance, fairness and sharing throughout...
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