Abstract
This paper discusses the transformation of the novel "Uncle Tom?s Cabin", by Harriet Beecher Stowe into a cultural icon. It looks at how the creation and recreation of the text by its readers, adapters and its foremost opponents, helped to polarize the abolitionist debate. The paper suggests that the responses to and adaptations of the text of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" provided a means by which the novel assumed a principal role in American culture through various media--the theater, film, posters, paintings, follow-on writings, essays and press coverage. Finally, the paper suggests that the articulation and reconstruction of the text by its readers brought on a range of social and political meanings and results.

Background: The Origins of a Living Document
Introduction
North and South Polarized
Critics Respond
The Abolitionist Debates
The Tom Caricature
The Greatest Impact

From the Paper
"In what way did this text change the traditional relationship between reader and the novel? The reader became the author, interpreter, director, actor, witness and part and parcel of the story. The story, instead of being about life, became life, and life in turn became its own version of the story. In this context of slavery, religion, melodrama, and family crisis, Uncle Tom's Cabin can be viewed as a cultural pattern instead of an isolated work. Almost as soon as it was published as a novel, Stowe's story was adapted for the American stage; from 1852 until well into the twentieth century, adaptations of Uncle Tom's Cabin were among the most popular productions that a theater company could stage. Stowe, however, never condoned nor participated in developing the productions, nor did she earn any money from these adaptations."

Tags:slavery, religion, melodrama, family, crisis, theater, George, Aiken, Eva, Topsy, Uncle, Tom, Augustine, St., Clare, abolitionists

Abstract
The paper discusses how there are many troubling characterizations of African-Americans in Harriet Beecher Stowe's, "Uncle Tom's Cabin". The paper points out that Uncle Tom has been often perceived as a weak-willed, ingratiating figure more concerned with placating whites than with defending his people. At the same time, it can hardly pass without notice that the most articulate and "sympathetic" African-Americans in Stowe's book are light-skinned - a clear suggestion that lightness of skin and personal merit were some correlated in the mind of the authoress. However, this paper - while not disputing that there are unfortunate characterizations in the text - argues that Beecher Stowe generally sought to portray African-Americans in a way that emphasized their humanity and potentiality. For that reason, the writer believes that while there are definitely stereotypes in the novel, they are outweighed by the book's many strengths.

Tags:uncle, tom's, cabin

Abstract
This paper analyses a critical passage drawn from chapter one of Harriett Beecher Stowe's nineteenth-century work, "Uncle Tom's Cabin." According to the paper, this passage articulates something profoundly important to the entire work which was to sway reluctant whites to embrace the cause of emancipation. The paper notes how Beecher Stowe portrays Uncle Tom as a man who is pious almost beyond belief, being the epitome of the Christian black man who is a "credit" to his race and someone not to be feared by whites should they give him full citizenship.

From the Paper
"The following paper will look at a passage, drawn from chapter one of Harriett Beecher Stowe's nineteenth-century work, that articulates something profoundly important to the entire work. Chiefly, because she is trying to sway reluctant whites to embrace the cause of emancipation, Beecher Stowe portrays Uncle Tom as a man who is pious almost beyond belief: he is the epitome of the Christian black man who is a "credit" to his race and someone not to be feared by whites should they give him full citizenship. Furthermore, the passage, uttered by Arthur Shelby, is significant because it reveals the author's own strong religious faith..."

Tags:uncle, tom, cabin

Abstract
The paper asserts that Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is one of the most important literary works to come out of the USA. The paper discusses how the central theme of the novel is the evils of slavery and asserts that the book had a major effect on the readers of the time as it exposed the evils of slavery, so many believe that it was a prelude to the American civil war. The paper outlines how the book focuses on the horrors of slavery, including the whippings, beatings, and forced sexual encounters, but also the evils of slavery in general, no matter how 'good' in some cases the masters were to their slaves. The paper points out that Stowe portrays slavery a something simply unChristian.

From the Paper
"Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is one of the most important literary works to come out of the USA. The central theme of the novel is the evils of slavery. The book had a major effect on the readers of the time as it exposed the evils of slavery and many believe that it was a prelude to the American civil war. The book focuses on the horrors of slavery, including the whippings, beatings, and forced sexual encounters, but also the evils of slavery in general, no matter how `good' in some cases the masters were to their slaves. Stowe portrays slavery a something simply unchristian. However, the book has also been criticized in recent..."

Tags:uncle tom, stowe, uncle tom's cabin

Abstract
This paper presents a character study of the main characters of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The paper argues that Aunt Chloe, as opposed to Uncle Tom, is the more realistic depiction of a southern slave.

From the Paper
"Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is universally understood to be one of the most important and deeply penetrating books of its time. Published during episodes of the National Era, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is often credited, in part, for the tensions that led to the American Civil War. Stowe wrote the work as a reaction too the Fugitive Slave Act under which it became illegal for anyone to give aid or assistance to a runaway slave."

Tags:stowe, harriet beecher, uncle toms cabin

Abstract
This paper compares and contrasts the reactions to slavery of Uncle Tom and George Harris in Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin". The approach adopted by Uncle Tom is compared to the worldview of Martin Luther King, Jr. in "A Letter From Birmingham Jail," while Harris' more oppositional approach is compared to the worldview expressed by Malcolm X in his speech "The Ballot or the Bullet."

From the Paper
"Two characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" reflect different philosophies and strategies toward the injustice of slavery. Uncle Tom is a pious Christian who acts in a Christian manner to persuade others to follow his moral example through Christ. George Harris is an educated man who believes in a more oppositional approach fighting for individual rights. These two responses roughly parallel the two approaches adopted by Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X during the fight for Civil Rights. King's moral stance..."

Tags:African Americans, King, blacks, Civil Rights, human rights, morality, ethics, Christian, Jesus, violence, Stowe, discrimination

Abstract
This paper presents a personal narrative regarding the sequence of events that led to the writer's uncle requiring a heart transplant. It discusses the first heart attack that the uncle underwent and the surgery that he required. It then looks at the events of the second heart attack and how the writer got the uncle the medical treatment he required.

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"He went home alone that night and I called him the next day to see if I could come get him and bring him to my house for Christmas dinner. He said he didn't feel up to leaving home. That was extremely unusual and I asked if I could come drive him to the hospital. He said no, and that he thought he had an old football injury annoying him. This went on for a week."
"New Year's Eve afternoon I called him as I had been doing each day all week. He said that he thought perhaps he needed to see a doctor. I laughed and told him he had waited too late. It was New Year's and all the doctors would be out having a party."

Tags:transplant surgery cardiac, myocardial infarct

Abstract
This paper examines some of the stereotypes found in "Uncle Tom's Cabin", with particular focus on the main character of Uncle Tom. The paper argues that the character of Uncle Tom is represented as a stereotype of an old, suffering and obedient servant, faithful to his white masters no matter what, but that there is also a philosophy of resistance in the passivity that he exudes. Furthermore, this paper argues that it is in the depiction of African-American women that many stereotypes can be found. Finally, this paper attempts to answer the following question: do the negative aspects of this novel outweigh its moral message?

From the Paper
"Uncle Tom's Cabin actually consists of two stories told in parallel. It begins with a financial crisis of the Shelby family whom are forced to sell some of their slaves. Eliza, the slave who is a maid in the house overhears this plan, which includes the sale of her child, and escapes with her husband and young son. We follow their long and dangerous escape route that eventually leads them to Canada. Uncle Tom, although he has a family on the plantation, does actually get sold to a family in New Orleans. He is very pious and accepting and soon becomes very faithful to his new owner much like he was to the one who sold him. The family is eventually won over by Uncle Tom and his calm, assuming manner, that both the father and the daughter become ardent supporters of abolishment. "

Tags:slavery, master, blacks, whites

Abstract
This is an analysis of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The author draws several comparisons between Uncle Tom, the main character, and symbol of slavery, and Jesus Christ, the symbol of Christianity. Stowe wanted to show the world what a cancer slavery was, and how it went against Christian values, in the hopes of swaying people to join the cause of the abolitionists.

From the Paper
"Stowe's "collection of sketches" were clearly written to show her readers that Christianity and slavery were antithetical - and in the end, the icon of Christianity in the novel is beaten down by the personification of all that is evil about slavery. Stowe's portrait of Tom emphasizes his boundless goodness, his unconditional love for all of mankind, his willingness to turn the other cheek, his loyalty to his masters - earthly and heavenly - and his drive to always evolve into a better Christian man. Tom's vision of Christianity is the same as Christ's - that salvation and final judgment must be laid at the feet of God, and that all men are brothers who should do to others what they would have done to themselves."

Tags:american, beecher, cabin, english, figure, harriet, literature, martyr, narrative, slave, stowe, abolitionist, black, slavery, god, christianity

Abstract
The following paper looks at two works: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the "Communist Manifesto". The way in which religion was used to help maintain power will be discussed with reference to these two works. The fundamental similarities and differences between these two books will be drawn upon.

From the paper:

" Although Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Communist Manifesto were written at about the same point in history, they are markedly different books. Although one was a fictional novel and one a philosophical treatise, both works influenced their countries to a greater or lesser degree during a civil war, and surprisingly similar views regarding religion are either expressed or implied in both works. This paper will look at how the two works discuss or reveal how religion was used to help maintain positions of power."

Tags:marxism, jung, power