Question

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin

a) intended to show the cruelty of slavery
b) was prompted by passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act c) comprised the recollections of a long-time personal witness to the evils of slavery
d) received little notice at the time it was published but became widely read during the Civil War
e) portrayed blacks as militant resisters to slavery

Answer 1

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was a powerful antislavery work that exposed the brutalities of slavery to a wide audience, becoming an incredibly effective piece of antislavery propaganda. The correct answer is option a.

Step-by-step explanation:

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was intended to show the cruelty of slavery, which makes option (a): 'intended to show the cruelty of slavery' the correct choice. This novel became the most effective piece of antislavery propaganda at the time of its publication. Far from being a mild portrayal, it depicted the brutal reality of life as a slave and the moral degradation of both the enslaved and the enslavers.



It sold over 300,000 copies in the North in its first year alone and incensed both northerners and southerners - the former for the injustice it portrayed, and the latter for the accusations they claimed to be false. The novel was fueled by the personal convictions of Harriet Beecher Stowe and her exposure to the stories of enslaved people, aiming to garner support for the abolition movement.