From the time Stowe’s book was introduced to the public to current dates there have been numerous controversies have erupted amongst society. Explained in partial and in depth thoughts on how people have personally experienced and preferences her literary work. In those years, in which her work was criticized several books, silent movies, posters, and other spinoffs were created, each depicting a different variation of slavery.
At the current time she had written the novel more than three million slaves resided in America… each slave experienced their own first hand experience with it. Stowe’s book was continuously read by new readers annually, this continued well into the 1920’s. The years leading up to this introduced a new form of her work. Film versions of the novel were produced known as “Tom Shows” which drew in even more of an …show more content…
Abolitionists wanted their viewers to know of the cruelties of slavery. To do so they used the “persuasive power of photography” in different text explaining the physical ruthlessness that surrounds slavery. To counter this effect of the brutality shown, others used “blackface” as entertainment portraying slaves as “happy darkies” singing and dancing. Stowe herself said her goal was to “Show slavery fairly” in the novel.
During 1854 Stowe believed personally that her in her novel “Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was a rather incomplete “representation of slavery.” She believed she had only shown readers the experience of the best aspects of slavery and not even par to what the worst actually was. The “Key” was an outcome of many widespread attacks on her novel.
Apologists for both the north and south attacked her depiction of literary documentation of slavery. From 1852 till the Civil War twenty novels were written to counter and provide alternatives of southern plantation