Uncle Tom's Cabin
Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, in the town of P-----, inKentucky; during the antebellum period. This being in the 1850’s was a time period when slavery was accepted in the south. Eleven years after this story was published (January 1, 1863) President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation which virtually ended almost 250 years of American slavery (1619-1865). To the Americans, slavery was their right as a person, African Americans were known as objects and were often treated like animals. When the Declaration of Independence was written it said “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” Written by Thomas Jefferson, but at the same time they reflected the attitudes of a nation in which individual rights were trampled by a foreign government. But at the same time, Jefferson owned over two hundred slaves at his Virginian plantation. At that time slaves were only counted as 3/5 of a person. This novel is one of few that actually stands out as and exception to the rule that novels are to
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Approximate Word count = 2231
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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