Africa and Africans in Harriet Beecher Stowe's uncle Tom'5 cabin

Abstract EN

The paper looks closely al certain passages in Stow' s Uncle TOIII's Cabin to prove that these moving passages which delineate the miseries and misfortunes of blacks are behind the powerful impact of the novel and its success in getting the message across to white Americans who eventually get to view the whole history of slavery from the author's angle of vision.

While occasional references are made to other black American prose Willers whenever necessary, the paper argues that Stowe is a pioneer as she writes history from the black man's perspective.

As a female novelist.

Stowe focuses more on the painful experience of women to allow the suppressed feminist voice 10 be recognized and heard.

The paper further argues that the selected passages show a movement in the novel from a diaspora of the African race in the early chapters into a unity toward the end.

from slavery to freedom and from rootlessness to a discovery of identity and origin through a return to the African homeland.

The paper concludes that the importance of the novel lies in changing the predicament of the blacks and the tremendous insight Americans have gained through the exposure of the horrors of slavery.-