Thursday, September 19, 2019
Uncle Tomââ¬â¢s Cabin and the American Civil War :: Uncle Toms Cabin Essays
Uncle Tomââ¬â¢s Cabin and the Civil War à à à à à Uncle Tomââ¬â¢s Cabin played a big role in starting the only war that was fought entirely on American soil. There were many factors that led up to the Civil War, but Uncle Tomââ¬â¢s Cabin turned the anger caused by the fugitive slave act into moral outrage which was then fueled by cases such as John Brown and Dredd Scott. à à à à à The Fugitive Slave Act was seen by many Northerners as a violation of their personal freedoms. Why should any Northerner be forced to miss work and leave their family to take a runaway slave back to their master? Unfortunately they didnââ¬â¢t have a choice unless they wanted to go to jail and/or pay a $1000 fine. Uncle Tomââ¬â¢s Cabin included a slave family (Eliza, George, and Harry Harris) that was running away in order to keep their son. This made Northerners mad because they didnââ¬â¢t want to leave their life anyways and to leave it to destroy another family was completely against their will. à à à à à Most Northerners saw slave owners as lazy because they didnââ¬â¢t do their own work. With new ideas about human rights, dignity, and the sanctity of motherhood brought about by the social reforms caused by cult of domesticity. Harriet Beecher Stowe showed that slaves were people too through Tom and his role all of the plantations that he worked on. By humanizing slaves many the North saw the freedom of slaves as an issue worth fighting and dying for. John Brown started an uprising at Harperââ¬â¢s Ferry. His goal was to get the arms and ammunition at Harperââ¬â¢s Ferry and arm slaves to start an uprising, but the uprising was crushed and Brown was hung for treason. Brown became a martyr for the fight against slavery and caused the tension between The North and The South to reach a new high.
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