Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe is an author who lived in the early 1800’s. The article “Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in serial form June 5, 1851” has many details in comparison to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s video. First, Uncle Tom’s Cabin became instant best seller soon after it was released. Second, Harriet Beecher Stowe lived in Connecticut, Ohio. Third, Harriet Beecher Stowe is best known as the writer of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Whilst reading the article Uncle Tom’s Cabin I realized there were four details about Harriet Beecher Stowe and her book that were not stated in the video. First of all Uncle Tom’s Cabin first started as newspaper story and was published chapter by chapter in an anti slavery weekly after the editor paid Harriet Beecher Stowe
The story she had heard was about Liza, a southern slave woman who escaped to freedom in the north when she heard that her infant baby boy was going to be sold and taken away from her, in doing so she had crossed the frozen river from Kentucky into Ohio while clutching her baby in her arms, later on this became one of the greatest scenes of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Harriet Beecher Stowe and her husband were strong abolitionists, in 1850 after congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law, prompting distress and distress in abolitionists and free black communities in the north. Harriett Beecher Stowe decided to express her emotions in a literary work about basing her work on the life of Josiah Henson a southern slave owner, and her own findings. Harriet Beecher Stowe was and still is an inspiration today for people all around the globe, many people look up to Harriet Beecher Stowe because she was a writer in a time where not many women were publishing, also she was able to achieve what many men were not able to achieve even today. Harriet Beecher Stowe is recognized as a symbolic figure today because she had the audacity to publish the book we know today as Uncle Tom’s