Uncle Toms Cabin
"The object of these sketches is to awaken sympathy and feeling for the African race, as they exist among us; to show their wrongs and sorrows, under a system so necessarily cruel and unjust as to defeat and do away the good effects of all that can be attempted for them, by their best friends, under it" (Stowe 1). “Uniting reality with fantasy, Mrs. Stowe [in Uncle Tom’s Cabin] applied the standard, throat-catching examples of homely infelicity on which the sentimental novelists had battened for years to the one area of American experience where the sorrow could not be over-dreamed. Striking to the very heart of the slaves nightmare-and of the white South’s guilt-she centered her novel on the helpless instability of the Negro’s home life” (Lynn 3504). In an essay written by Kenneth S. Lynn in 1961, Lynn praises Stowe for the way she conveys the reality of slavery and the misuse of Christianity. A native of Litchfield, Connecticut, Harriet Beecher Stowe, is considered one of the best novelists, essayists, and short story writers of her time. She wrote Primary Geography for Children on an Improved Plan, 1833, “A New England Sketch,” 1834, and The Mayflower, 1843, but none received more acclaim than Uncle Tom’s Cabin or Life Amo
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Approximate Word count = 845
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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