"The Real Side of Slavery": Harriet Beecher Stowe

Legend claims that Abraham Lincoln greeted her as "the little lady who made this big war." This lady who appealed for an end to slavery in the United States used a vision she had during a church service of a black man being beaten. This vision became the inspiration and main idea for her novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin", or "Life Among the Lowly". Harriet Beecher Stowe, a realist used her book to convey the evils …

…in Stowe's church and there she created one of the most important and famous books in literature about slavery. Teaching every generation the significance of Christian values, and reveals the problems slavery can cause in any place or time. Stowe uses Tom, a humble slave, to show the reader that no matter the circumstances God at all times will be with the troubled Christians and will always bring hope, joy, and peace to their hearts.