Uncle Tom

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Uncle Toms Cabin
Presentation by Robert Martinez Primary Source
War, Terrible War by Joy Hakim Images as cited.
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• Harriet was the smallest of the Beechers
  children. She never grew to be more than five
  feet tall. But size has nothing to do with
  ability.

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• In fact, Harriet Beecher, who married Calvin
  Stowe, became the most famous American women of
  her day. And all because of a book she wrote, a
  book that changed history.

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• Growing up in New England, slavery had seemed
  so far away. Now, while attending school in Ohio,
  a free state, Harriet stood on the banks of the
  river looking across at Kentucky, a slave state.

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• She watched boats filled with slaves in chains
  who were being shipped south to be sold at slave
  markets.

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• One day she saw a baby pulled from its chained
  mothers arms. She saw a look of anguish on the
  mothers face. She never forgot that look.

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• Once, Harriet, was invited to Kentucky to
  visit a friend who lived on a plantation and
  owned slaves. The friend and her family were kind
  people, and she saw slavery at its best.

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• But when Harriet and her friend rode horses to
  a neighboring plantation, they saw a cruel
  overseer abusing blacks. Harriet remembered the
  kindness and the cruelty.

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• Harriet was becoming a writer. She wrote
  stories and poems. Then, when she married and had
  babies, there never seemed to be enough money. So
  Harriet wrote stories to earn money.

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• Harriet had learned a lot about slavery, and
  it made her very angry. Her brother Edwards wife
  said to her, If I could write as you do I would
  write something to make this whole nation feel
  what an accursed thing slavery is.

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• And that was just what Harriet Beecher Stowe
  did. She wrote Uncle Toms Cabin.

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• It was the most important American book
  written in the 19th century. It may be the most
  influential book ever written in America. Its
  chapters were first printed in a newspaper.

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• Within a week of its publication as a book (in
  1852), 10,000 copies had been sold, and Uncle
  Toms Cabin was just getting started.

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• Before the Civil War began, two million copies
  were bought in the U.S., and it was translated
  into many languages and sold around the world.

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• Anyone who reads Uncle Toms Cabin and doesnt
  cry at the end has a hard heart. It was the first
  American novel to make real people of blacks, and
  it made people care.

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• Harriet tried to be fair when she wrote the
  book. She made the horrible overseer, Simon
  Legree, a Northerner. Legree is the villain in
  the story.

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• Uncle Tom, a saintly black man, is strong and
  heroic, the finest person in the book.

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• In the novel, the two black men who beat him
  are evil. Some white plantation owners are good
  people. Harriet was trying to show that color has
  nothing to do with whether a person is good or
  bad.

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• What she showed very well was that the system
  of slavery was evil and that even good people did
  evil things when they were part of the system.

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• Uncle Toms Cabin changed peoples ideas about
  slavery. It made people in the North angry. It
  made them willing to fight a war to end slavery.

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• In the South it was against the law to buy or
  sell this book. Why do you think that is?

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• When President Lincoln met Harriet Beecher
  Stowe during the Civil War he said to her, So
  this is the little lady who wrote the book that
  made this great war.

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