Question

Can someone please tell me how Northerners and Southerners reacted to the book Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Answer 1

Harriet Beecher Stowe chose a great time in history in which she published Uncle Tom's Cabin. It happened to be during the time of the passing of the Fugitive Slave Laws. The Fugitive Slave Laws were made because of all the slaves thatwere fleeing from the South and escaping to the North which was "free land." The Fugitive Slave Laws state that if any slaves have escaped to the North they must be captured by a Northerner and returned to the South. This infuriated the North even more. The South at first felt that Uncle Tom's Cabin was supportive of slavery because they felt as though someone had captured their beliefs of slavery and put it into a story that told the life of a slave master and a slave. The south believed that they were bettering the lives of the slaves and that they should have to right to make their own decisions. The North finally understood the evils of slavery. The South finally understood that Harriet was writing a book that went against their beliefs and led them to despise her. Despite her pleas to the South stating that she was not intentionally targeting them, but trying to give people a visualization of how awful and uncaring slavery is, the southerners still felt as though she was attacking at their way of life. The North supported Harriet greatly after the publishing of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Answer 2

Uncle Tom's Cabin became a major tourist location in all the USA