Stowe's Portrayal Of Fugitives In The US
First, Stowe uses a mother and son to portray fugitives. Mr. Bird states, “he had never thought a fugitive might be a hapless mother, a defencelss child” (799). When Stowe portrays a loving mother, who escapes to prevent her son from being sold and seperated from her, as unlawful, and emphasizes that the new laws meant to preserve slavery as lawful, she shows how instituting slavery really contradicts our conscious and beliefs. Also, Mr. Bird helps Eliza and her son reach safety. Because he is a senator, Mr. Bird is not simply a man aiding a criminal, but a symbol that those in control of the government consider it's system to be flawed.
Because Eliza collapses on Mr. and Mrs. Bird's front porch after reaching the Kentucky line carrying her
child, it does not seem that Stowe is excessively sentimental or manipulating the reader's emotions. It is rather easy for the content in Uncle Tom's Cabin to be emotion evoking, however, any sorrow, sadness, or terror Stowe combats with a solution or a positive conclusion. No one wants to grieve the death of their child, but in doing so Mr. and Mrs. Bird are able to relate to Eliza's pain and reasoning for escaping to save her only son. While Mrs. Bird opens her sons dresser as if she was “opening again of a little grave,” (797) she is still relieved that she is able to help Eliza and her son. Mrs. Bird was unable to “give them away to any common person...but I give them to a mother more heart-broken and sorrowful than I am; and I hope God will send his blessing with them!” (798) It seems that the content that Stowe is writing about is emotional, not necessarily her writing.
I think Douglass states some very unwanted and hard truths that addresses a supposed day of independence. He argues that the freedom and liberty that is being celebrated is not truely freedom because it excludes all non-whites. It really stood out to me that Douglass used the Bible and Declaration of Independence as a strategy to promote the anti-slavery cause.his By arguing his claim according to the foundation of texts that we perceive as canonical, it is really hard to dispute his claim. I think Douglass used the best approach to suggest a nation built on true freedom by using founding texts to solidify his reasoning and cause.
Because Eliza collapses on Mr. and Mrs. Bird's front porch after reaching the Kentucky line carrying her
child, it does not seem that Stowe is excessively sentimental or manipulating the reader's emotions. It is rather easy for the content in Uncle Tom's Cabin to be emotion evoking, however, any sorrow, sadness, or terror Stowe combats with a solution or a positive conclusion. No one wants to grieve the death of their child, but in doing so Mr. and Mrs. Bird are able to relate to Eliza's pain and reasoning for escaping to save her only son. While Mrs. Bird opens her sons dresser as if she was “opening again of a little grave,” (797) she is still relieved that she is able to help Eliza and her son. Mrs. Bird was unable to “give them away to any common person...but I give them to a mother more heart-broken and sorrowful than I am; and I hope God will send his blessing with them!” (798) It seems that the content that Stowe is writing about is emotional, not necessarily her writing.
I think Douglass states some very unwanted and hard truths that addresses a supposed day of independence. He argues that the freedom and liberty that is being celebrated is not truely freedom because it excludes all non-whites. It really stood out to me that Douglass used the Bible and Declaration of Independence as a strategy to promote the anti-slavery cause.his By arguing his claim according to the foundation of texts that we perceive as canonical, it is really hard to dispute his claim. I think Douglass used the best approach to suggest a nation built on true freedom by using founding texts to solidify his reasoning and cause.