This judge was constrained by the law from providing relief ; this fit with Stowe's belief that law and judges — and religious leaders, too — could not be expected to help end slavery.

Books in the genre attempted to show either that slavery was beneficial to African Americans or that the evils of slavery as depicted in Stowe's book were overblown and incorrect.

As well as stories from the Old Testament, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, she grew up with Aesop ’ s Fables, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, the folk tales and mythology of Scotland, the German Romantics, Shakespeare, and the romances of Sir Walter Scott.

After Stowe's death her son and grandson claimed she and Henson had met before Uncle Tom's Cabin was written, but the chronology does not hold up to scrutiny and she probably drew material only from his published autobiography.

Georgiana May, a friend of Stowe's, wrote a letter to the author, saying, " I was up last night long after one o ' clock, reading and finishing Uncle Tom's Cabin.

It is left up to the viewer as to whether Stowe's character has in fact run afoul of the Government — or, alternatively, that the Interrogator is acting alone.

At the time of the novel's initial publication in 1851 Uncle Tom was a rejection of the existing stereotypes of minstrel shows ; Stowe's melodramatic story humanized the suffering of slavery for White audiences by portraying Tom as a Christlike figure who is ultimately martyred, beaten to death by a cruel master because Tom refuses to betray the whereabouts of two women who escape from slavery.

* Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture — A multimedia archive edited by Stephen Railton about the Stowe's novel's place in American history and society

Babb's final film was his presentation of a European version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's book Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Even though Stowe's novel differs from other sentimental novels by focusing on a large theme like slavery and by having a man as the main character, she still set out to elicit certain strong feelings from her readers.

* 1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.

Moreover, Stowe's exploration of the regional history of New England deals primarily with the domestic sphere, the New England response to slavery, and the psychological impact of the Calvinist doctrines of predestination and disinterested benevolence.

Feminist theory can also be seen at play in Stowe's book, with the novel as a critique of the patriarchal nature of slavery.

A major part of the Key was Stowe's critique of how the legal system supported slavery and licensed owners ' mistreatment of slaves.

He brought some of his father's emancipated slaves with him to work in his household, one of which was supposedly the model for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom, she visited Noble's home on more than one occasion.

It became the best-selling American novel of the 19th century, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and is considered " the most influential Christian book of the ...

A 1901 stage adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin containing mixed elements of Harriet Beecher Stowe's original Christian martyr and the stock minstrel character of later adaptations.

" Because Christian themes play such a large role in Uncle Tom's Cabin — and because of Stowe's frequent use of direct authorial interjections on religion and faith — the novel often takes the " form of a sermon.

Considered " the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century ", it was the best-selling American novel from the time of its publication, superseding Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin ( 1852 ).

" Harriet Beecher Stowe's Christian Feminism in the Minister's Wooing: A Precedent for Emily Dickinson.

Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

According to Stowe's son, when Abraham Lincoln met her in 1862 Lincoln commented, " So this is the little lady who started this great war.

Most of Aiken's dialogue is lifted verbatim from Stowe's novel and it included four full musical numbers written by the producer, George C. Howard.

One of the Rileys ' slaves, Josiah Henson, is thought by historians to be the inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

" Stowe's own letter to her husband is equally ambiguous: " I had a real funny interview with the President.

It is on the property of the Community Club, at the site of a church where Stowe's husband once served as a minister.

Henson's autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself ( 1849 ), is widely believed to have inspired the character of the fugitive slave, George Harris, in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin ( 1852 ), who returned to Kentucky for his wife and escaped across the Ohio River, eventually to Canada.

As is true for many suffragists, a tension existed between Stowe's commitment to fellow women and class loyalty.

She is currently starring as Charlotte Grayson, Madeleine Stowe's character's teenage daughter, on the ABC drama series Revenge.

Stowe's character, Emma, is a fiddler in the group.

Similarly, in Harriet Beecher Stowe's controversial novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin ( 1852 ), one of Simon Legree's overseers is named Sambo.

Its role in the history of slavery in the United States is reflected in Harriet Beecher Stowe's second novel, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp.

Set in an unspecified country, Stowe's character is taken from her home in the middle of the night, accused of embedding anarchistic messages into her book, entitled Closet Land.

According to Debra J. Rosenthal in an introduction to a collection of critical appraisals for the Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, overall reactions have been mixed with some critics praising the novel for affirming the humanity of the African American characters and for the risks Stowe assumed in taking a very public stand against slavery before abolitionism had become a socially acceptable cause, and others criticizing the very limited terms upon which those characters ' humanity was affirmed and the artistic shortcomings of political melodrama.

Stowe's Uncle Tom was a muscular and virile man who refused to obey when ordered to beat other slaves ; the stock character of minstrel shows became a shuffling asexual individual with a receding hairline and graying hair.

Among the most famous anti-Tom books are The Sword and the Distaff by William Gilmore Simms, Aunt Phillis's Cabin by Mary Henderson Eastman, and The Planter's Northern Bride by Caroline Lee Hentz, with the last author having been a close personal friend of Stowe's when the two lived in Cincinnati.

By combining this melodramatic approach with the content of Stowe's novel, Aiken helped to create a powerful visual indictment against the institution of slavery.

Conway's politically watered-down stage version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin ; the play, at Barnum's American Museum, gave the story a happy ending, with Tom and other slaves freed.

In 1833, during Stowe's time in Cincinnati, the city was afflicted with a serious cholera epidemic.

* Smith, Gail K. " Reading with the Other: Hermeneutics and the Politics of Difference in Stowe's Dred.

This non-fiction book was intended to verify Stowe's claims about slavery.

This so-called Anti-Tom literature generally took a pro-slavery viewpoint, arguing that the issues of slavery as depicted in Stowe's book were overblown and incorrect.

Simms ' book was published a few months after Stowe's novel, and it contains a number of sections and discussions disputing Stowe's book and her view of slavery.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's moving description of the treatment of slaves in Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in 1852, led her wide international readership to recognize — in some instances for the first time, the cruelty and oppression of slavery.

One of many pro-slavery responses to Harriet Beecher Stowe's bestselling Uncle Tom's Cabin, such defenses of slavery became known as the anti-Tom genre, published in the decade before the American Civil War.

Harris himself said, in the introduction to Uncle Remus, that he hoped his book would be considered: ... a sympathetic supplement to Mrs. Stowe's of Uncle Tom's Cabin wonderful defense of slavery as it existed in the South.

However, by highlighting the issue of slavery, this time in the north, The Minister's Wooing also represents a continuation of Stowe's earlier anti-slavery novels.

It was published to document the veracity of the depiction of slavery in Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin ( 1852 ).

First published in 1853 by Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, the book also provides insights into Stowe's own views on slavery.

Simms ' The Sword and the Distaff came out only a few months after Stowe's novel and contains a number of sections and discussions that clearly debate Stowe's book and view of slavery.