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Title: 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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