The following quote from Uncle Tom's Cabin is written from the perspective of a slave. Read the quote and think about why YOU believe this novel had such a big impact on people living in the North and the South during this time.
"Well, I grew up, – long years and years, – no father, no mother, no sister, not a living soul that cared for me more than a dog; nothing but whipping, scolding, starving. Why, sir, I've been so hungry that I have been glad to take the bones they threw to their dogs; and yet, when I was a little fellow, and laid awake whole nights and cried, it wasn't the hunger, it wasn't the whipping, I cried for. No, sir, it was for my mother and my sisters, – it was because I hadn't a friend to love me on earth. " - from Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852 |