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This week I chose the biological connection with Harriet Beecher Stowe. Harriet was first introduced to the harsh acts of slavery when she made found herself at a young age watching a woman having her child ripped from her arms after cross in Kentucky. After seeing this transpire, she began writing stories that would allow the world to be exposed to these acts. This woman was one of the first-ever publishers to speak out against the horrid actions of slavery. She demonstrates the horrible ways people treated enslaved people in the south throughout her stories.
Harriet’s direct reason for writing these works was to light the horrid nature of slavery conducted in the south. She made it her personal lifelong objective of educating people on how slaves were being treated all over the southern states. At the same time, most people in the north did not condone slavery or had even been exposed to the nature of the slave trade.
While at a young age seeing women have their child ripped from their mother’s arms, she uses the example in parts of her story to show the struggle that young slave mothers have to deal with during their time of slavery to have their children pulled from their mother’s arms to be sold off. “If it were your Harry, mother, or your Willie, that were going to be torn from you by a brutal trader, to-morrow morning,—if you had seen the man, and heard that the papers were signed and delivered, and you had only from twelve o’clock till morning to make good your escape,—how fast could you walk?.” (Stowe, 1852. Chap.7) This passage shows the desperation that mothers had to go through as enslaved people to protect their children from being taken away from them.
Harriet put something else into her writing that even though the slave trade was such a common practice throughout the south, not every person who lived there believed in these acts. Even enslaved people only did so because of how they were raised—showing that there was still a sense of compassion from some people that lived in the south. This indicates that she didn’t have to convince the whole south of these acts ultimately but that some would agree that the actions of some did not represent every enslaver.
I relate to the author because I grew up in Vermont. In one of the chapters of her books, she states that the people of Vermont don’t believe in the acts of slavery. Being that I grew up in this area, it feels good to read that my home state was directly against slavery and fought to abolish it
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