Uncle Toms Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin "So you're the lady whose book started this great war." Abraham Lincoln said this to Harriet Beecher Stowe upon meeting her in 1862. This quote shows the great influence the novel had on the minds of its readers and on a nation in turmoil. At the height of racial tension in nineteenth century America, Stowe revealed the sufferings and hardships the slave was forced to endure. Stowe used passionate and sometimes exaggerated thoughts …

…female characters that were seen to hold moral superiority over their male counterparts prove this book to be profoundly feminist. Stowe showed the relationship between male domination and slavery, and how feminism paved the way for abolitionist views. Stowe stirred the emotions of readers through her detailed accounts and descriptions. Many females were ignited by the separation of families that was so often explained. Harriet Beecher Stowe truly is a hero of the abolitionist period.