Uncle Toms Cabin

"The object of these sketches is to awaken sympathy and feeling for the African race, as they exist among us; to show their wrongs and sorrows, under a system so necessarily cruel and unjust as to defeat and do away the good effects of all that can be attempted for them, by their best friends, under it" (Stowe 1). “Uniting reality with fantasy, Mrs. Stowe [in Uncle Tom’s Cabin] applied the standard, throat-catching examples of …

…interjects her opinions frequently in asides, basically telling what emotions you should feel. “In concluding these little incidents of lawful trade, we must beg the world not to think that American legislators are entirely destitute of humanity… Who does not know how our great men are outdoing themselves, in declaiming against the foreign slave-trade” (Stowe 133). This allows Stowe to broaden the influence of the novel and the purpose she wants to transcend is not misinterpreted.