Being a writer can be challenging. Being a female writer can be even more challenging. But being a female author who wrote a story on one of the most morally and socially controversial topics of that era is by far the most challenging. I’m Harriet Beecher Stowe‚ a supporter of the abolishment of the captivity and forced labor of Africans‚ as well as a very productive writer. I came from a family that was based on religion; my father was a Reverend. I’ve been writing since I was seven years old and
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Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin “Harriet Beecher Stowe believed her actions could make a positive difference. Her words changed the world‚” (“Harriet Beecher”). In the time of Harriet Beecher Stowe‚ America was acquainted with the idea of slavery. Everyday‚ the South saw the devastating effects it had on people but was not affected by it. The South was accustomed with slavery and did not see the problem with it. The North knew about slavery but was not aware of the reality it had in
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civil war. The Constitution was clearly interpreted in different ways. There were many conflicts between the north and south about the issue of slavery in the Constitution. This issue was touched up with the compromise of 1850 (Doc A) and the fugitive slave act. One concept of this compromise was known as “popular sovereignty” where Utah and New Mexico decided to vote on whether they want slavery at the time of statehood application. However‚ the strict fugitive slave law commanded the capture of
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discipline slaves who had misbehaved‚ but he treated his slaves so well that very few tried to escape. Clay was the Speaker of the House when the Missouri Compromise was written. At that point in his career‚ Clay believed that gradual emancipation would succeed in every slave state in the union. Therefore‚ Clay supported the Missouri Compromise because he thought that Missouri would eventually adopt a policy of gradual emancipation‚ and slavery would be eradicated from the United States. Unfortunately
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I did both William Carney and Dred Scott because they are both hard working men that were both in slavery for a good amount of time. They both fought for the freedom of themselves and other slaves. I found both of these men to be interesting and educational. William Carney born into slavery on February 29‚ 1840‚ in Norfolk Virginia. William usually worked out in the fields with his father‚ and his mom worked in the master’s home. As William was growing up‚ his minister helped him with his
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Sam Houston was a great man in our history. He stood up for what he believed was good for the Union not the North or the South. When Sam was rebuked for providing the winning margin for his opponents he said "I know neither North nor South; I know only the Union." He also said everyone " must stand firm to the Union‚ regardless of all personal consequences." He was fiercely ambitious‚ yet at the end he sacrificed for principle all he had ever won or wanted. He was a Southerner‚ and yet he steadfastly
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the northern United States and increase in the Lower United State including Texas. The United States was divided on slavery and the Norther States abolished slavery while the southern states embraced it. The northern states above the Missouri Compromise of 1820 did not allow slavery. The United States economy played an important role in slavery were it either strengthened or weakened it. The northern states did not have a strong agricultural business due to the type of hard and rocky soil that
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increasing separation of the union. Much conflict arose on whether Texas and California should be free or slave states. One of the men who tried to resolve this conflict was Henry Clay. Along with Stephen Douglas‚ he drafted what came to be known as the Compromise of 1850. It declared California a free state‚ abolished the slave trade in D.C‚ gained the New Mexico territory (which was to be organized through popular sovereignty)‚ rearranged the Texas boundary‚ and passed the Fugitive Slave Law. Although it
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The United States was growing and needed to expand and a nationalist feeling had swept the nations as the people wanted a strong and secure nation. As the nation expanded sectionalism escalated over slavery issues which divided the nation into the northern free states and the southern slave states. Each had representatives and senators and the more free or slave states‚ the more influence they had in the government to preserve slavery abolish it. Almost all in the North wanted to stop the expansion
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conflicting problems that were proved unfixable by compromise. During this time‚ the north underwent major social‚ economic‚ and industrial changes known as the Antebellum Period. While the south generally clung to king cotton and slavery and thus remained essentially the same. This arose a manifold of controversies with how issues such as tariffs‚ slavery‚ and land should be handled. Both the Union and the Confederacy tried to create compromises to resolve these problems‚ yet both sides were never
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