The Abolitionist News
Your daily dose of liberty talk.
Topic of the Day
The Christian Slave
This dramatic reading portrays one of the biggest ideals of American history: Christianity; seeing as there were Christian slaves, the slaves were not very different from the whites and even adopted shared beliefs.
Chapter 33: Cassy
Topsy/Eva Doll
Poor Uncle Tom
Uncle Tom's Cabin Tobacco
Uncle Tom and Little Eva (1853)
Opinions on the Issue
Yasha Eskandar:
1. One of the more subtle ideas conveyed is that there was a growing divide between people wanting to abolish slavery and people wanting slavery to continue. Another idea was the massive visual response to Uncle Tom’s Cabin with countless Abolitionist paintings being created.
2. The Abolitionist movement seemed a lot more organized than the pro-slavery movement and the illustrations by the Abolitionists were a lot more persuasive to their cause.
Valeria Liu:
1. A subtle idea I picked up upon looking at these images was the intense emotion abolitionists had for their cause. In poems, artwork, music, and other mediums of the humanities, they would pour in a lot of pathos because their best justifications and reactions came from evoking emotion from themselves to their audience.
2. What was most surprising to me was the abundance of media attention Uncle Tom's Cabin had gotten. Considering the fact that the people of 1850 had lived without the technology we have now in modern society, to see Uncle Tom's Cabin gain so much media attention to the point where there are children's toys made because of his cause surprised me the most.