Uncle Tom Cabin

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Eliza and Tom’s conflicting storylines. For an example of parallels, as Eliza goes farther North, her faith grows stronger as she is closer to achieving freedom. While on the other hand, Uncle Tom fights to keep his faith strong and he is being dragged further south and into worse slavery conditions. As for irony, with the senator who protected Eliza. Senator Bird had just recently voted to make fugitive slave law stricted but he turns around and assists the escaped slave Eliza. Throughout the book, Stowe stays fairly accurate and lines up closely to actual conditions. She achieved this by interviewing and collecting information from notable figures such as Frederick Douglas. Stowe had also seen the debate of slavery up close whenever she lived on the border of slave states and non slave states. Her experiences and research allowed her to create the classic and realistic work that is Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The fact that her family is full of stout Christians and abolitionists is another reason for why she wrote this book. Slight prejudice could have been shown in the book when Stowe made the speech of blacks and whites drastically different.

Overall, Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a very enjoyable and interesting book that accurately depicts the true horror of slavery through many different perspectives. It is almost a quintessential book that any person studying about slavery should read. The book allows for readers to be put into different perspectives to show how the institution of slavery was, and how different people chose to view it.. The book shows the reader that slavery was not horrible for everybody in all places, even though it was literal torture most of the time. This piece of literature is a rollercoaster in which the emotional climate and situation are never the same, or what they are predicted to be. The historical value of this book, the lessons and varying perspectives it offers on slavery, it’s importance in how it affected the North and possibly caused the Civil War, are all important factors of this book. These factors combine to form a novel that should be shared and read in every history classroom across the nation, no matter the content that is being taught.