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A 7 page paper that describes the fact that Stowe's novel is influential and derived from an abolitionist perspective, but at the same time is clearly racist. The author attempts to support this belief by demonstrating the racist off shoots of the abolitionist movement, including colonization, that Stowe supports in her work. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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additions to American literature (Wagenknecht 16) and has been the most discussed book in American literature (Adams 24). It has been an undeniably influential social and historical novel for
decades. Stowes abolitionist beliefs were paramount to the development of the structure and content of her work, and it is clear that she hoped to promote this perspective in
the work. But while the novel is both influential and abolitionist, it is also clearly racist. This racism stems primarily from the religious and social development of the
abolitionist movement promotion of colonization to promote independence, but also to support the concept of racial cleansing. The novel is based around a few major characters and a number of
interesting interactions with lesser characters during their transition out of slavery and into Canada. The main plot shapes around the characters of Tom, his friend, George Harris, and his
wife Eliza Stowe uses these characters as the voice of the black slave moving through the process of the Underground Railroad and through Southern institutions that battle constantly against the
restraints of new calls for the abolition of slavery (Adams 25). The structure of the novel develops from a clearly pro-abolitionist perspective. Slavery had become a definitively divisive problem
in the United States, and North and South could not solve their disputes over the slave issue. Abolitionist took a powerfully religious tack and hoped that by providing
scriptural evidence against slavery they enact change. Stowe and her family were abolitionists, and she clearly supports this cause in her novel. The slave traders, the plantation owners,
and the whites who interact with Tom on his voyage south, as well as the difficult interactions that lead Eliza and George to Canada, are not kind portrayals of white
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