The Evils of Slavery in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Analytical Essay by Top Papers

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.