Summary Of Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, once said:“ I feel now that the time is come when even a women or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak…I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.” Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and author, wrote about the cruel lives African Americans endured. Stowe was anti slavery and believed that anyone who had a voice was required to speak up for the cruelties of mankind. The central idea of freedom is a reoccurring theme in many works read this semester. Comparing and analyzing the meaning of freedom to a number of different authors will help to better understand the important concept of freedom. The United States of America was founded on the idea on this very idea of freedom. This essay will analyze autobiographies, poems and narratives during of the slavery era in the United States. A huge part of the slave
Mary Rowlandson, Mary Rowlandson writes a captivity narrative in 1642. The opening begins in the middle of the narrative. It goes on to tell the story of how Mary and her three kids were sleeping and taken by Indians. Mary is split up from her children with the exception of one who dies at the end. She is taken into the wilderness and held for months witnessing her brother in law killed. The only thing that keeps her going is a Bible that was given to her. Through her faith she was able to regain hope and pay ransom for her husband. At the end she was reunited with her husband and two children.
The narrative talks about how the Puritans became successful and forgot about God throughout their inhabiting of the New World. Rowlandson writes about the theme of civilization vs. slavery and how freedom can be taken for granted. She goes further into explaining how you can have everything one minute and it all can be taken away quickly. The most important thing is being reliant on