The Subject of Race in Uncle Tom's Cabin

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Marburg (Institut für Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: In the preface to Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe explained the purpose of her antislavery novel. She wanted “to awaken sympathy and feeling for the African race […]” (xiii). Stowe is more precise ...