文档介绍：Uncle Tom's Cabin
——Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was an American author and abolitionist, whose novel Uncle Tom''s Cabin (1852) attacked the cruelty of slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the . and Britain. It made the political issues of the 1850s regarding slavery tangible to millions, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North. It angered and embittered the South. The impact is summed up in monly quoted statement apocryphally attributed to Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said, “So you''re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!“
Hariet Beecher Stowe was partly inspired to create Uncle Tom's Cabin by the autobiography of Josiah Henson, a black man who lived and worked on a o plantation in North Bethesda, Maryland. Henson escaped slavery in 1830 by fleeing to Canada where he helped other fugitive slaves arrive and e self-sufficient, and where he wrote his memoirs.
His creation motive
American social background
Stowe eventually acknowledged that Henson's writings inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin. When Stowe's work became a best-seller, Henson republished his memoirs as The Memoirs of Uncle Tom, and traveled extensively in the United States and 's novel lent its name to Henson's home—Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site, near Dresden, Ontario—which since the 1940s has been a museum. The actual cabin Henson lived in while he was a slave, still exists in Montgomery County, Maryland.
personage introduction
Integrity, good-natured, religious
Uncle Tom is a pious, trustworthy, slave. He never wrongs anyone and always obeys his master. A very spiritual person, Uncle Tom tries his best to obey the Bible and to do what is right.
Uncle Tom and Eliza Eliza
Eliza is a beautiful slave owned by e Shelby, Sr., the same person who initially owns Tom. Eliza has a son, Harry. Eliza's husband, e Harris ,lives on a nearby plantation
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