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What parts resonate with, or parts that are points of contention/disagreement. Explain why. This is history, Uncle Tom’s cabin.

What parts resonate with, or parts that are points of contention/disagreement. Explain why. This is history, Uncle Tom’s cabin.

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What parts resonate with, or parts that are points of contention/disagreement. Explain why. This is history, Uncle Tom’s cabin.
Pro-slavery white Southerners argued that Stowe's story was just that: a story. They argued that its account of slavery was either entirely false, or at least wildly exaggerated. The book also educated whites, and has been cited as one of the popular instigators of the Civil War. Stowe's characters freely debated the causes of slavery, the Fugitive Slave Law, the future of freed people, what an individual could do and racism. Stowe, who came from an abolitionist family, wasn't devoid of racial prejudice and assumptions about correct social order placing her white self at the top. But the level of sympathy in her work gives it power. Stowe's book became a rallying cry for the anti-slavery movement. But to many black people, the characters in Uncle Tom's Cabin were insulting. Stowe's vision of a passive, religious slave who, although he wanted freedom, didn't want to rise above whites, is a good example of some of the assumptions white Northerners had about the meaning of black freedom.
Transcribed Image Text:Pro-slavery white Southerners argued that Stowe's story was just that: a story. They argued that its account of slavery was either entirely false, or at least wildly exaggerated. The book also educated whites, and has been cited as one of the popular instigators of the Civil War. Stowe's characters freely debated the causes of slavery, the Fugitive Slave Law, the future of freed people, what an individual could do and racism. Stowe, who came from an abolitionist family, wasn't devoid of racial prejudice and assumptions about correct social order placing her white self at the top. But the level of sympathy in her work gives it power. Stowe's book became a rallying cry for the anti-slavery movement. But to many black people, the characters in Uncle Tom's Cabin were insulting. Stowe's vision of a passive, religious slave who, although he wanted freedom, didn't want to rise above whites, is a good example of some of the assumptions white Northerners had about the meaning of black freedom.
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