Harriet Beecher Stowe (REDONE BLOG)

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 Below is a speech I wrote from the perspective of Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe. Some additional information is;  Around 1850, when Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law, Stowe decided to write a book about the abolishment of slavery. The Stowe family were extremely against slavery and even supported the Underground Railroad while they temporally housed several escaped slaves in their own household. 



Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe, born June 14, 1811, was known to be a revolutionary author who wrote about thirty books in her lifetime. She rose to fame around 1852 when her book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was published. This book was intended to popularize the emotional portrayal of the negativity on slavery individuals. This book captured America's attention; in Stowe’s book, she made it known that slavery touched all society and added the debate about abolition and slavery. This created a riot in the south and southerners were quick to respond with anti-Tom novels; which were intended to continue the justification of slavery in so called “more positive terms”. These novels were apparently best sellers but none of them compared to Stowe’s novel which set a publishing record. 



    

I, Harriet Beecher Stowe, feel as Americans need to move past our harsh racial segregated ways. Here as I stand in the year 1850 where the fugitive slave law has been passed; how is it fair that these poorly treated people be stripped from their now better-escaped life to be dragged back to being a slave? Even if they have escaped from a free state? It does not matter if another state considers them their private property. These are people just like you and me. I say this in my novel. I’ve tried to bring clarity to the harsh ways we used to have. It's time to change. Not later. Not tomorrow. Now. it has gone on long enough. I demand that the United States go through with its promise. The promise of freedom and equality for all! Not just for you but for all! 

It's time for a turning point for this abolitionist movement. Slavery is a sin. You will all burn in hell if you continue this. The United States is changing; it has been changing for many years and it will continue to change. Why not change for the greater good? I know this country has a lot to offer, but how can we offer such greatness if we are beating and forcing people against their own will to do our farming and laundry based on their race? This was not God’s intent. As I speak with a Christian perspective. God's intent was not to have another race be inferior to another. We are not better than anyone, we are all inferior under God and that's it. This novel I wrote, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, will do good. It will open the eyes of many and do nothing but good to end this racist time. You can write as many pro-slavery books to try and compete with this my right moral view but I will assure you this time will come to an end, and we will all be treated with respect and equality one day. Just you wait. 



resources 
https://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/harriet-beecher-stowe/uncle-toms-cabin/
https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/blog/historical-abolitionist-month-harriet-beecher-stowe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Tom_literature





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