Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

By: Kathryn Poslusny and Miles Roberts

Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?• Born June 14, 1811 in Connecticut

• Preacher and activist in antislavery movement

• 1836 married Calvin Ellis Stowe

• Opposed Fugitive Slave Act

• First publication in antislavery journal National Era

• Caused a national debate and possibly the start of the war

• Died at 85 on July 1, 1896

Harriet Beecher Stowe

What was Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

• From memoirs of Reverend Josiah Henson that helped story line of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

• Published in 1852

• Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe- expressed hatred of slavery through writing

• Bestseller in 1853

• Caused strong reactions about slavery in North and South

Reverend Josiah Henson

Plot• Slave owner sells Uncle Tom and Eliza to keep land

• Eliza runs away with son -- escapes capture by crossing the frozen Ohio River

• Uncle Tom is taken on riverboat down Mississippi River

• Tom bought and taken to New Orleans

• Tom is beat to death just as one of his previous owners come to buy him back

• New family moves to France then Liberia

Increased tensions between North and South

• Increased protests in North

• Attack on South as a whole

• Pushed more people into abolition- care about slavery

• Showed how badly slaves were treated in the South

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Harriet Beecher Stowe. Retrieved October 24, 2010 from: http://www.cksinfo.com/americana/ushistory/womensrights/index.html .

Reverend Josiah Henson. Retrieved October 21,2010 from:http://uncletomscabin.org/.

SparkNotes Editors. (2002). SparkNote on Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Retrieved October 20, 2010, http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/ uncletom/summary.html

Stowe, H.B. (2003). Introduction: harriet beccher stowe. In A. Claybaugh (Ed.), Uncle tom's cabin (pp. 1-2). New York, NY: Barnes and Noble Books.

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin poster. (2010). Retrieved October 24, 2010 from: http://www.uhaul.com/SuperGraphics/175/8/Enhanced/Venture-Across-America-and-Canada-Modern/Ontario/The-Little-Lady-Who-Started-the-Big-War.

For more information see:

Cook, S. (n.d.). Uncle tom's cabin historic site. Retrieved from http://uncletomscabin.org/homepg.htm

Stowe, H.B. (2003). Uncle tom's cabin. New York, NY: Barnes and Noble Books.