"The Real Side of Slavery": Harriet Beecher Stowe

Legend claims that Abraham Lincoln greeted her as "the little lady who made this big war." This lady who appealed for an end to slavery in the United States used a vision she had during a church service of a black man being beaten. This vision became the inspiration and main idea for her novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin", or "Life Among the Lowly". Harriet Beecher Stowe, a realist used her book to convey the evils of slavery by using symbolism and characterization.
The developments throughout the novel by the use of symbolism are seen in two ways: objects and metaphors. …