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Essay / l, and Stowe uses the novel to address all aspects of slavery and its long-term effects not only on the slaves, but also on their families as well as their masters and their masters' families. Stowe introduces the reader to characters who seem real and who suffer at the merciless and unjust hands of slavery. She forces her readers to consider the effects of slavery from the perspective of the slaves rather than the perspective of the master. Stowe appeals to the reader's emotions, playing on their guilt and forcing them to see how slavery ruins not only lives, but entire families. In Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe demonstrates how the corruption of slavery dismantles and eradicates domestic life and stability, and that the only way to save the home is to get rid of slavery. At the time of this novel's publication, the role of women was simple. They were expected to stay at home, take care of the house and raise their children. Stowe takes this idea and builds on it: she appeals to women's domestic lives as a means of highlighting the injustice of slavery. In his article, Tim O'Loughlin writes: "...as a popular text, Uncle Tom's Cabin, in various forms, acted as a public site within which evolving concerns about race, gender, Social class and nationality issues were brought together. and bound, or, middle of paper......nk outside the box. It gave people permission to question the things society made them believe, and gave them the determination and motivation to join abolitionist movements to end the injustices of slavery. Stowe used Uncle Tom's Cabin to particularly appeal to her readers, emphasizing how slavery attacked family life and ruined family values. It was not only a market that affected slave owners, but also slaves. Stowe showed how harmful slavery was to everyone and everything he came into contact with, and forced his readers to see slavery from a new perspective. Uncle Tom's Cabin successfully shows how Stowe believed slavery eradicated national stability and stood out as an important novel that helped bring the importance of the abolitionist movement to the forefront of the anti-slavery movement..
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