Beecher Stowe
Was Harriet Beecher Stowe “the little woman who made this Great War”?
Do you believe that that quote is fact or fiction?
Why or why not?
Please document your sources.
I’m doing this for history class, I need people’s opinions on this, but I also have to have documented sources.
The quote is correct to a degree. Stowe GREATLY influenced public opinion on slavery as a result of its portrayal in her book. Basically, Uncle Tom’s Cabin got the educated North stirred up about the issue of slavery. It also helped to dehumanize the farmers and plantation owners of the South to whom slavery was a way of life. Granted they were being cruel, but many in the North thought of them as monsters, based solely on Stowe’s writing. HOWEVER, this was not the single greatest cause of the American Civil War, as any history text on the subject will tell you. There were a number of other (political and economic) factors that led the South to seceed, and the North to wage war against them. To much of the public, however, this was a war over slavery…and Harriet Beecher Stowe was the one who educated them.
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