UNCLE-TOMS-CABIN life lesson for everyone.pptx

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1. UNCLE TOM’S CABIN

2. Harriet Beecher Stowe  (1811-1896) published more than 30 books, but it was her best-selling anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin that catapulted her to international celebrity and secured her place in history

3. While living in Cincinnati, Stowe encountered fugitive enslaved people and the Underground Railroad. Later, she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in reaction to recently tightened fugitive slave laws. The book had a major influence on the way the American public viewed slavery. INTRODUCTION

4. SETTING The book begins in the mid-19th century on the Shelby plantation in Kentucky, where Uncle Tom lives in a cabin with his wife and children. After fellow slave Eliza, the "favorite" of Mrs. Shelby, learns that her son is being sold, she flees north up through Ohio and on to Canada with her husband, also an escaped slave.

5. A major theme in Uncle Tom's Cabin is the problem of slavery and the treatment of humans as property, concepts that Stowe counterbalanced against the morality of Christianity. Stowe's depiction of slavery in her novel was informed by her Christianity and by her immersion in abolitionist writings . POV

6. Uncle Tom's Cabin tells the story of Uncle Tom, an enslaved person, depicted as saintly and dignified, noble and steadfast in his beliefs. While being transported by boat to auction in New Orleans, Tom saves the life of Little Eva, an angelic and forgiving young girl, whose grateful father then purchases Tom SUMMARY

7. A major theme in Uncle Tom's Cabin is the problem of slavery and the treatment of humans as property, concepts that Stowe counterbalanced against the morality of Christianity. Stowe's depiction of slavery in her novel was informed by her Christianity and by her immersion in abolitionist writings . LESSON

8. Geography. Uncle Tom's Cabin uses the North to represent freedom and the South to represent slavery and oppression. Obviously, the opposition is rooted in history. However, Stowe embellishes the opposition so as to transform it from literal to literary. SYMBOL

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