STOWE AND LESTER

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, & Julius Lester, To Be A Slave

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, & Julius Lester, To Be A Slave

Introduction

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher born on the 14th of June, 1811. She was an abolitionist and author of more than ten books, the most famous Uncle Tom's Cabin, which tells the story of life in slavery and that, first published in serial form of episodes from 1851 to 1852 in an abolitionist organ, The National Era, edited by Gamaliel Bailey (Stowe, 1852). Although Stowe had never set foot in the American South, published consequently A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, a real job documenting the veracity of her account of the lives of slaves in the original novel (Stowe, 1852).

Julius Lester born in 1939 in St Louis, Missouri. Julius Lester has published since 1968 no less than thirty-five pounds, twenty-five youth (Brace, Laura, 2004). His work has won numerous literary awards. He has also written over two hundred essays and reviews for various American magazines (Brace, Laura, 2004). After being a photographer, he became a professor at New York and the University of Massachusetts (Brace, Laura, 2004).

Discussion

Compare and contrast the historical accounts of “To Be A Slave” and the fictional accounts in “Uncle Tom's Cabin”.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

The cabin of Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom's Cabin) is a novel by the author abolitionist American Harriet Beecher Stowe, which has a central theme of slavery. The work first published on March 20 of 1852 (Stowe, 1852). The story centers on the story of Uncle Tom, a slave African American who has suffered enough, the star around which other characters, both slaves and their owners, they move. The novel dramatizes the harsh reality of slavery while showing that Christian love and faith can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of human beings (Stowe, 1852).

In Uncle Tom's Cabin mainly overlooked through a 1 composition: the wickedness plus the wickedness of being a slave. As Stowe manages the rest of the sub-themes during the message given in the writing, like the assurance on the lesson of motherhood plus the possibility of repentance extended by the Christian religion, stresses the associations among that plus the revulsion of being a slave (Stowe, 1852). Stowe brings up its fight against the wickedness of being a slave in nearly all the pages of the book, at times altering the course of history to give a "sermon" about the blasting characteristics of being a slave (as whenever a Caucasian on the boat that leads south Tom says "The most frightening of slavery is, in my opinion, the atrocity of the feelings and affection: the separation of families". A way in which Stowe was the immorality of being a slave is like this asylum forced to separate classes (Stowe, 1852).

As Stowe believed about motherhood being as "the honorable plus functional example of U.S. account". He was also of the view that female are the only ones that have the significance power to protect America from the threats of ...