Running Head: STOWE AND LESTER

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, & Julius Lester, To Be A Slave
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, & Julius Lester, To Be A Slave

Introduction Harriet Elizabeth Beecher born on the 14th of June, 1811. She was an abolitionist and author of more than ten books, the most famous Uncle Tom's Cabin, which tells the story of life in slavery and that, first published in serial form of episodes from 1851 to 1852 in an abolitionist organ, The National Era, edited by Gamaliel Bailey (Stowe, 1852). Although Stowe had never set foot in the American South, published consequently A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, a real job documenting the veracity of her account of the lives of slaves in the original novel (Stowe, 1852). Julius Lester born in 1939 in St Louis, Missouri. Julius Lester has published since 1968 no less than thirty-five pounds, twenty-five youth (Brace, Laura, 2004). His work has won numerous literary awards. He has also written over two hundred essays and reviews for various American magazines (Brace, Laura, 2004). After being a photographer, he became a professor at New York and the University of Massachusetts (Brace, Laura, 2004).

Discussion
Compare and contrast the historical accounts of “To Be A Slave” and the fictional accounts in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”. Uncle Tom's Cabin The cabin of Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom's Cabin) is a novel by the author abolitionist American Harriet Beecher Stowe, which has a central theme of slavery. The work first published on March 20 of 1852 (Stowe, 1852). The story centers on the story of Uncle Tom, a slave African American who has suffered enough, the star around which other characters, both slaves and their owners, they move. The novel dramatizes the harsh reality of slavery while showing that Christian love and faith can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of human beings (Stowe, 1852). In Uncle Tom's Cabin mainly overlooked through a 1 composition: the wickedness plus the wickedness of being a slave. As Stowe manages the rest of the sub-themes during the message given in the writing, like the assurance on the lesson of motherhood plus the possibility of repentance extended by the Christian religion, stresses the associations among that plus the revulsion of being a slave (Stowe, 1852). Stowe brings up its fight against the wickedness of being a slave in nearly all the pages of the book, at times altering the course of history to give a "sermon" about the blasting characteristics of being a slave (as whenever a Caucasian on the boat that leads south Tom says "The most frightening of slavery is, in my opinion, the atrocity of the feelings and affection: the separation of families". A way in which Stowe was the immorality of being a slave is like this asylum forced to separate classes (Stowe, 1852). As Stowe believed about motherhood being as "the honorable plus functional example of U.S. account". He was also of the view that female are the only ones that have the significance power to protect America from the threats of being a slave, other main aspect of the book is the significant strength plus the holiness of the female gender (Stowe, 1852). By attributes such as Eliza, who was able to escape from the life of being a slave to protect his child (finally she was able to unite her whole family) or young Eva, who looked as to being a "Christian ideal". Stowe, in his writing, has portrayed the idea that women have the power to protect their loved ones, even the greatest injustices (Stowe, 1852). While modern evaluators have pointed out the fact that women's are mostly stereotypes Stowe domestic rather than real female, Stowe's book confirmed the fact that females can have a significant influence on any situation, and they are the ones that can help in paving the way of movement rights of women in the following decades (Stowe, 1852). In Puritan religious beliefs, Stowe has shown at the end of the novel, showing the subject by exploring the nature of Christianity and how he feels that Christian theology is fundamentally incompatible with slavery (Stowe, 1852). This theme is more evident when Tom wants to go to St. Clare to "see Jesus" after the death of the beloved daughter of St. Clare, Eva. Because the topic Christian has a role in Uncle Tom's Cabin (and due to the frequent use of interjections Stowe on religion and faith), the novel often takes the "form of a sermon" (Stowe, 1852). Amid tyranny, Tom is a role model to forgive his neighbor, a "moral miracle" of Christian morality (Stowe, 1852).

To Be A Slave To Be A Slave is a work done by Julius Lester. She presents the reader with what it feels like to be a slave. In To be a slave, he presents the reader with the feeling of to be owned by another person, just like a car, house, or a table being owned (Lester, 2000). To live as a piece of property sold that could be, mother to child, wife to her husband (Lester, 2000). To be considered not human, but to be considered as the 'thing' that plowed the fields, cut the wood, cooked the food, nursed another's children, to a 'thing' whose only function determined by the one who owned her. This book is about how it felt (Lester, 2000). All Aspects of Slavery in America described in vivid detail by painful and often black men and women who been slaved themselves (Bales, 2004). Many were illiterate. They had no formal education, but they had the education of day-to-day living, of observing people and nature, for their lives depended on sometimes such knowledge (Lester, 2000). The major portion of the text has-been constructed from the memories of former slaves. Some of this material has never been published some has-been drawn from sources long out of print (Lester, 2000). Julius Lester has provided commentary on which is both sympathetic and relevant (Lester, 2000). We learn about the hierarchy of plantation life and how to understand that the black slaves fought against his enslavement through music, religion, and in every way possible (Lester, 2000). The material arranged in a historical time sequence which begins in Africa and culminates with the civil war and emancipation, but the emotions of the people who lived through it are Timeless (Lester, 2000).

Do you feel that Stowe’s work should be viewed as a primary source depicting the realities of slavery or is it a bias account from a passionate abolitionist? Uncle Tom's Cabin was the bestselling novel in the nineteenth century (and bought the second book of the time, after the Bible), and written with the intention to give greater impetus to the abolitionist cause in the United States prior to the Civil War (Bales, 2004). After the first year, of publication, about 300,000 copies of the book sold (Bales, 2004). The comparison with the Bible, highlighting its popularity, is significant as Harriet Beecher Stowe was a devout and committed Christian, daughter of a Christian seminary president, and wife of a professor of biblical literature in college (Drescher, Seymour, 2009). Readers who flocked to the church respond favorably to Uncle Tom's Cabin because it thought that the Bible values exposed as their own. The reception of his message is still problematic (Drescher, Seymour, 2009). Many suggest that the term used by Beecher Stowe to refer to the novel sounds somewhat discriminative and helpful, if one takes into account the connotations that Uncle Tom holds (Drescher, Seymour, 2009). These usually attributed to a domestic slave, and in our days, it might sound a bit harsh when used to refer to a person of African descent (Rodriguez, Junius, 2007). In a period that slavery had been abolished, this book is an easy target of strong and deeply negative criticism from opposition sectors, i.e. those who stood for the system and against the cause abolitionist (Rodriguez, Junius, 2007). In addition, words that Harriet included in his work tended to be somewhat controversial in that no under both parties. On the other hand, the novelist was very clever to give a somewhat exaggerated and chilling on the subject, which then reinforced by the image of broken families and destroyed by the slave trader company, unnecessary separations and cruelty of many of the owners, who came to the giant store to get cheap labor (Rodriguez, Junius, 2007). The kindness and humility of Tom, along with the holy innocence of children's characters and white men, as well, in contrast to the horrific reality of the society in which they moved (Rodriguez, Junius, 2007). As a last detail was exquisite Beecher Stowe and meticulous in the preparation of his work, not only because it gave a lot of pictures sharp, but it contributed to a lifelike atmosphere to represent as closely as possible the language of his characters, often said of social levels (something we find in other authors, such as Kate Chopin, Henry James and Mark Twain) (Rodriguez, Junius, 2007). Historically, the book written in the U.S. dates (with Brazil) was one of the few countries that still admitting legal slavery and this book helped to deepen the debate and expand the consciousness of Americans about the slave system (Rodriguez, Junius, 2007). In the end, it can be said that, though, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher was an abolitionist, and presented in this book things, which people might have thought were on account from a fervent abolitionist, yet it can be said that the facts that she presented were true. Therefore, her work should be viewed as a primary source depicting the realities of slavery (Rodriguez, Junius, 2007).

Conclusion Slavery is a legal institution that leads to a personal situation for which an individual is under the dominion of another, losing the ability to dispose freely of his own person and property. The phenomenon of slavery dates back to some ancient civilizations. Historically it shows that their existence from practice to exploit the labor of captives in war, unlike most remote practice of sacrifice. Slavery is an economic activity while the slave is the ideology that sustains it. In the end, it can be said that both the writers, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher and Julius Lester, have presented us with the facts related to being a slave (Rodriguez, Junius, 2007). They have presented us with the harsh realities related to the life of the individuals that are slaves to someone. It can also be said that through reading the both writings, the true feeling of being a slave can be felt (Rodriguez, Junius, 2007).
References

Bales, K., (2004), “New slavery: a reference handbook”, ABC-CLIO. pp. 15–18
Brace, Laura, (2004), "8. Slaveries and Property: Freedom and Belonging", The politics of property: labour, freedom and belonging. Edinburgh University Press.
Drescher, Seymour, (2009), “Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery”.
Lester, J., (2000), “To Be A Slave”, Puffin.
Rodriguez, Junius, P., (2007), “Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia”.
Stowe B. Harriet, (1852), “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, John P. Jewett and Company, United States.