Uncle tom's cabin

English 38-377 Harriet Beecher Stowe utilizes emotional appeal to gain compassion of mothers from the North and the South, black and white, on the issue of slavery in Uncle Tom?s Cabin. Stowe gives strong roles to her female characters and uses this as a symbol of maternity and strength. By giving motherhood strength, Stowe is saying that mothers will be the ones to end the evil of slavery, and the family will be saved …

…the emotions of the reader because it shows how slavery destroys a mother?s bond to her child and wears away the relationship between a wife and her husband. Stowe represents the mothers in Uncle Tom?s Cabin as strong willed, with deeper Christian family values than their husbands because she believes that the reader will identify with these strong mothers who are capable of keeping the family united and overcoming the evils of slavery.