H_B_Stowe

II. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly

"The most dreadful part of slavery, to my mind, is its outrages of feelings and affections—the separating of families, for example.”
I. Life and career

She taught school in Hartford and in Cincinnati, where she came into contact with fugitive slaves and learned about life in the South, and later settled in Maine with her husband, a professor of theology. While raising seven children, she began writing professionally.
One way Stowe showed the evil of slavery was how this "peculiar institution" forcibly separated families from each other.

II. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Amone Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly

In spite of the critical controversy surrounding the book, the characters of Uncle Tom, Little Eva, and Simon Legree have all achieved legendary status in American culture. Uncle Tom's Cabin endures as a powerful example of moral outrage over man's inhumanity to man. It continued to catalyze discussions about race in the United States in the twenty-first century.
II. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly

1. Plot summary Stowe's novel tells the stories of three slaves — Tom, Eliza, and George — who start out together in Kentucky, but whose lives take different turns. Eliza and George, who are married to each other but owned by different masters, manage to escape to free territory with their little boy, Harry.


2) the moral power and sanctity of women
Because Stowe saw motherhood as the "ethical and structural model for all of American life," and also believed that only women had the moral authority to save the United States from the demon of slavery, another major theme of Uncle Tom's Cabin is the moral power and sanctity of women.
I. Life and career

It is said that President Lincoln met Stowe during the Civil War and said to her, "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that made this big war."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly
I. Life and career


Born: 14 June 1811 Birthplace: Litchfield, Connecticut Died: 1 July 1896 Best Known As: Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin Name at birth: Harriet Elizabeth Beecher
II. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly

Stowe relied upon images of domesticity, motherhood, and Christianity to capture her nineteenth century audience's hearts and imaginations.
II. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly

Tom is not so lucky. He is taken away from his wife and children. Tom is sold first to a kind master, Augustine St. Clare, and then to the fiendish Simon Legree, at whose hands he meets his death.
II. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly

Perhaps the most important American novel of the nineteenth century, Stowe's masterpiece is published serially in the National Era in 1851-1852 and as a book in 1852. It became a bestseller in the United States and England and went on to sell three hundred thousand copies the first year. By 1900 it had been translated into forty-two languages.
I. Life and career

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811– 1896) was a novelist and abolitionist，whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) is a classic of 19th century anti-slavery literature. Stowe was the daughter of the famous Congregationalist minister Lyman Beecher (1775 – 1863) and the sister of Henry Ward Beecher and Catharine Esther Beecher.
II. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly


2. Reactions to the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was based on various slave narratives. Stowe claimed to have been inspired by grief over her baby's death in 1849 and resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Uncle Tom‘s Cabin has exerted an influence ―equaled by few other novels in history.‖ Upon publication, the book elicited praise from abolitionists. But the novel was viciously attacked by proslavery readers, even after Stowe defended the research on which she based the novel in A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853).
I. Life and career

Her most Important work is Uncle Tom's Cabin. Credited with mobilizing antislavery sentiment in the North, Stowe was praised, honored, and respected among African Americans both during her lifetime and in the years following.