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Virgil
This week I will be going with a Biographical Connection of Harriet Beecher Stowe‘s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Chapter 41, The Young Master. Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut in 1811 to Reverend Lyman Beecher and Roxanna Foote Beecher. In 1862, Harriet Beecher Stowe was able to meet the President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. She died in July of 1896 a the age of 85, and published over 30 books.
Harriet Beecher Stowe found her influence for writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin after walking by a Slave Auction and witnessing a child being forcibly taken from it’s mother (Press Books, 2017). She based the character of Eliza off of that particular incident. What she saw that day are the facts she used in her writing (Chapter 41) and the subsequent book. Being that she grew up in the time of slavery, and that she made that trek down into Kentucky (living in Ohio at the time), she was able to paint a picture of the atrocities of that era. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was and has been a very popular book that shed light on a very grim time in our nations history. It was so popular, in fact, the book sold 300,000 copies the first year. I was able to relate to the author in the fact that what Harriet Beecher Stowe witnessed in her lifetime moved her in such a way to write about it.