Essays on Simon Legree

Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Antebellum America in the Eyes of the Slaves More than a narrative imagining of the slavery experience in Pre-Civil War America, Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a reflection of the historical context in which it was written. Using the conventions of literature, Harriet Beecher Stowe dramatized first-hand real accounts of escaped slaves and Europeans and Americans involved in slave trading. Her understanding of the African American experience found depth in her association with the Abolitionist movement and the…