Who Speaks for Whom? Why? When?
And above all, let us approach our work as Stowe. Uncle Tom’s Cabin in its final book form was published years after Stowe saw slaves suffering on the other shores of the Ohio. These horrific scenes never left her. She might have forever dismissed her responsibility; or maybe responded in the oppressive heat of the moment as a frenzied female. She did neither. Her activism was not immediate but it was eventual. It was deeply thoughtful, timely, and above all timeless.
Work Cited
Beecher, Stowe. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. n.d. 10 February 2014. <http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Harriet_Beecher_Stowe/Uncle_Toms_Cabin/Topsy_p11.html>.
Brown, William Wells. Clotel, Or The Presidents’s Daughter. 1853 Version. <http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2046/pg2046.txt>.
Cambridge. “Lessons and Carols 2013.” Cambridge: BBC, 2013. Live Broadcast. 24 December 2013.
Gerson, Noel B. Harriet Beecher Stowe. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1976. Print.
Notes
[1] Both of these catechetical moments can be seen for themselves in the on-line chapters mentioned in this article’s Work Cited.
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