Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was referred to as “the little woman who made this great war” by none other than Abraham Lincoln himself (Stowe xi). Stowe is believed to have aroused antislavery sentiments in the North and also provoked angry rebuttals in the South (Stowe xi). She was very crafty with a pen and paper and when the fugitive slave law passed, her sister-in-law had told her that she needed to “write something to make this nation feel what a cursed thing slavery is” (Stowe xiii). Stowe grew up among congregationalist clergymen and theologians and was constantly in church where, one sunday, she found herself having a vision of Uncle Tom’s death during communion (Stowe xiii). Stowe’s purpose in writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin was to show all of the United states, North and South, what a wretched thing slavery was, the hardships endured by slaves and their families, and also to show …show more content…
These include when Eliza had to make the decision to take her son Harry and head towards Canada (Stowe 50), when Uncle Tom was on the boat headed down river to be sold and had to jump into the river to save Eva that had fallen in (Stowe 178), when little Eva gave the speech to the slaves that she would not be alive to see them after a few weeks and everyone moaned and cried because they were attached to her (Stowe 338). Slaves had to deal with things such as, losing their families, getting attached to their masters and their children and having to deal with losing them as well as their own flesh and blood, being sold away from everything they ever knew, and also being sold from a very nice, loving master to a very cruel, harsh master that treated them very badly. In the midst of everyone, slaves would have the hardest time because of the fact that they were the ones who were being sold and used becaused they were believed to be inferior because of the color of their