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After reading both novels Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass I can now compare and contrast both authors and their way of interpreting slave life to the reader. Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811. She was the seventh child of a famous protestant preacher. Harriet worked as a teacher with her older sister Catharine. Her earliest publication was geography for children, issued in 1833. In 1836, Harriet married a widower Calvin Stowe. They eventually had seven children. Stowe helped to support her family financially by writing for local and religious periodicals. During her life, she wrote poems, travel books, biographical sketches, and children's books, as well as adult novels. She died at the age of 85, in Hartford Connecticut. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote at least ten novels, but she is mostly known for her first that was written in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin.Frederick Douglass was a nineteenth-century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his own freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher. The novel I read was an autobiography about his own personal encounters with slavery and how it affected his life.
She first uses irony to expose the moral hypocrisies of the slave trade. Despite his wealth, slaves received hardly any allowance of food and clothing. The only difference is that Frederick Douglass was a slave himself and Harriet Beecher Stowe wasn't. Indeed, the South would try to formalize this during the Civil War. She uses persuasion to tell the two main themes of the story; the evils of slavery and the effectiveness of Christianity in abolishing it. The North was heavily industrialized with factories and manufacturing being central to the economy. But, slavery ruins Prue, even before it literally claims her life. Although Stowe discusses at length the evils of slavery she also illustrates her point graphically. Shelby is thought of to be a good shaveholder, but after concluding a deal with Haley two families are being torn apart by his actions. However, both were great novels and I enjoyed reading them. For instance, Eliza's "miraculous" leap onto the river ice through the unique power of a mother's love. She has been used as nothing more than an animal and is only useful for breeding other animals to sell. Economy in the South was heavily based on agriculture and growing cotton. In conclusion, these two novels are similar in many different ways and share the same view on slavery. In the Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass; he tells you that killing slaves was not a crime.
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