Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin". An American Jeremiad in the Antebellum Theological Debate over Slavery

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar), course: 19th Century Woman Writers, language: English, abstract: The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 engendered an “extraordinary rise of northern antislavery and abolition sentiment” (Stauffer 2010), in the context of which Uncle Tom’s Cabi...