Uncle Tom's Cabin is an 1952 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the evils of slavery and the struggles of black slaves to escape. The book was the best-selling novel of the 1800s and is widely credited for helping the abolitionist movement gain momentum and galvanizing the Civil War. The novel follows the lives of the several slaves, Eliza and her family and Tom, as they attempt to escape their brutal treatment by fleeing to the North. In the end Eliza escapes to Canada and is free but Tom dies.
Do not Judge a Book by its Color One of the most controversial acts of its time The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed into law to prevent the protection of runaway slaves and stated they must be returned to their master Shortly after the Act was passed into law Harriet Beecher Stowe in her short story depicts slavery solely as evil and uses Uncle Toms Cabin to play on peoples feelings and to help start the abolitionist movement in the South The strong feeling that slaves were not of value a
Moby Dick 1 is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod commanded by Captain Ahab Ishmael soon learns that Ahab does not mean to use the Pequod and her crew to hunt whales for market trade as whaling ships generally do Ahab seeks one specific whale Moby Dick a great white whale of tremendous size and ferocity Comparatively few whaling ships know of Moby Dick and fewer yet have knowingly encountered