Unlike many Novels, Uncle Tom Novel played a major role in worldview of slaves and slavery while others went un- advertised. A few of these reviews limited themselves to defending the south from what appeared as Stowe's unfair attacks triggering war and the end of slavery. It also played key role in shaping American’s literature as it had a big influence on several writers. The novel high lightened the plight of slaves, slavery and the laws set against those aided slave’s run-away, crusader of anti-slavery and advocacy of slave rights. The book draws Tom as a black slave whose is loyal, reliable and of Christian nature. Shelby, his boss and a Kentucky plantation owner, faced with financial constricts and resorted to sell Harry and Tom to a trader one Mr. Halley. Generally, Uncle Tom novel came to addressed issue of slavery and the appropriate approach needed and identified by Christian love and the need to eradicate slavery.
Dred Scott
The book shades lights on a person born during slavery. The article was published in 1857. The book differs from most other books because of its attempts to undertake and the methods used. Neither Harriet nor Dred Scott could read or write and yet this book undertakes to be the biography of Harriet. Writing a biography of an illiterate person is daunting, but need recorded if we are to understand our common history. The book highlights how Both Dred Scott and the wife Harriet sued to establish their freedom and derivatively, the freedom of their daughters. The court verdict came out to assert that Scotts were not citizens and could not be citizens because of their race. The Supreme Court of the United States stated that black persons, had no rights that white men were bound to enjoy. The court proposed racial inequality and denied them their freedom claims, calling it sweeping language. Because the notorious Supreme Court decisions influenced much of what came after as racism. Dred Scotts name became famous and famously synonymous with injustice.
John Brown Harper Ferry Incident
The book draws a synopsis of a party, which had five free Negroes in attendance, John Brown and eighteen followers descended on Harpers’ Ferry in 1859. They cut telegraph lines outside the town and captured the guards at the bridge. Several men quickly seized the armory containing several million dollars’ worth of Federal arms; one contingent was sent to take hostages; another to wait the salve uprising at a schoolhouse across the river. All went well until the 1.00 am train arrived in town. The first person killed was a free Negro porter. The shots attracted attention, and before day fully broke, the town was thoroughly aroused. Within hours, reinforcement of excited militia and angry recruits began to arrive. President Buchanan sent nearly 100 Marines under the leadership of Robert E. Lee and Jeb Stuart. Instead, he took a position inside the railroad engine house with eleven hostages. Two attempts to bargain the hostages for safe passage rejected as infuriated troops gunned down the men whom Brown sent out under a flag of truce. Finally, the marines demanded unconditional surrender. When Brown refused, they stormed into the foot enclosure. One-leatherneck shots in the face, another through the body, but all of Brown’s men inside the engine house captured. John Brown narrowly escaped death when a sword aimed at his stomach caught on his belt buckle and doubled over. Ten of Brown’s men killed; five captured while three escaped. Four civilians, including the Negro porter, killed and one U.S Marine lost his life.
Work cited
1. Cromwell, sharon. Dred Scott V. Sandford:A Slave's Case for Freedom and Citizenship. Capstone, 2009.
2. Newton, John. Captain John Brown of Harper's Ferry: A Preliminary Incident to the Great Civil War of America. Nabu press, 2012.
3. Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle tom's cabin. Washington: Applewood books, 2008.
