 Tom Uncle’s Cabin was written in 1850 by Harriet Beecher Stowe and was published in 1852. This book articulates nineteenth-century America's shameful attitude to slavery, the horrors of slavery, its contradictions to human nature, its moral and religious fallacy.  The author tackles slavery as a problem for whites and prioritizes the suffering and hardship suffered from blacks. The author reflects slaves, especially Uncle Tom, as moral, gentle, and faithful people. In the nineteenth century of America, slavery, just because the whites wanted it, separated the mother from her offspring, the child from her mother, the wives from each other, and more than that, snatched away from the hearts the of faith. White people oppressed, despised and tortured the black people without being aware that black people were human-like white people, without being aware that they had feelings and thoughts like them, without being aware that their lives were lives. So much so that even black people don’t think they are the same! Uncle Tom's kindness, his devotion to the owner, made the owner love him. However, he was forced to sell him and a child slave to cover his debts. After Uncle Tom changed two owners after him, he was flogged and killed for helping two Negroes to be freed. The son of the first owner found Uncle Tom, as he had previously promised Aunt Chloe (Uncle Tom's wife), but was able to retrieve his dead body. Kneeled on the grave of his poor friend and said these sentences; “Witness eternal God! Oh witness, that from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land.” From these sentences, we can understand that thanks to Uncle Tom the other slaves will break out of in the book. “Return, ye ransomed sinners, home.” “One thing more,” said George, as he stopped the congratulations of the throng; “you all remember our good old Uncle Tom?” “It was on his grave, my friends, that I resolved, before God, that I would never own another slave, while it was possible to free him; that nobody, through me, should ever run the risk of being parted from home and friends, and dying on a lonely plantation, as he died. So, when you rejoice in your freedom, think that you owe it to that good old soul, and pay it back in kindness to his wife and children. Think of your freedom, every time you see UNCLE TOM’S CABIN; and let it be a memorial to put you all in mind to follow in his steps, and be honest and faithful and Christian as he was.” And we can understand that from these quotations the slaves were set free and Uncle Tom’s Cabin symbolizes freedom. Yeah, in the book the slaves were set freedom but in America weren’t set free in the nineteenth century! THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY: When the Americas were discovered, the human beings who assimilated the natives here and subjected them to genocide were brought people by ships from Africa to employ on this continent. Then the Africans were used as slaves, they had no rights and they were bought and sold as worthless goods. Eventually, in 1804, slavery was banned in the northern states, but the South didn’t accept it. Then there was the Civil War. On June 19, 1862, slavery was banned all over America by President Abraham Lincoln. The reason Stowe’s book got so much attention is that he describes events in a realistic way. The reason he tells it realistically is that he was in contact with former slaves in Ohio and heard some escape stories from them. Yeah! The slavery that was banned ten years ago in the book of Harriet Beecher Stowe was banned in America in 1862. In other words, Uncle Tom's Cabin took the lead in removing slavery. Perhaps it may not be direct, but indirectly, the book has been a precursor to the abolition of slavery. At least, this book was hope for slaves. Yes, slavery may have been abolished today, but it is an undeniable fact that blacks live much worse than whites. Unfortunately, there is still fascism, there is still capitalism!

Uncle Tom's CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe · Wordsworth · 01,740 okunma

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