READ: Uncle Tom's Cabin Chapter 45 Passage
Completion requirements
As you read this passage from Uncle Tom's Cabin, think about the following:
- What are Stowe’s arguments against slavery?
- In what ways does Stowe use Christianity in this passage?
- According to the author, how are people from the North who support slavery more guilty then the slave holding people of the south?
- How does Stowe illustrate the competing claims of reason and emotion in the debate over slavery? How does she acknowledge counter arguments?
- Which paragraph do you think is most essential for the development of Stowe's argument? Identify one or two specific sentences and describe the role of these particular sentences in developing and refining a key concept of the passage