Uncle Tom's Cabin-role of women

Role of Women

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, gives the reader a look into feminism and the significant role woman played in the lives of their families during the mid-nineteenth century.
The reader is given many examples of woman that strive for perfection and use their morality to contribute to the cruel act of slavery. Mrs. Bird influences her husband to harbor slaves, after he helped pass the Fugitive Slave Law forbidding this. She explained to her husband, “I can read my Bible; and there I see that I must feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and comfort the desolate” (89). Mrs. Shelby tries to convince her husband not to sell Tom and Harry and she displays her morality by expressing to him how slavery is a sin. Mrs. Bird and Mrs. Shelby act on their religious convictions and speak out against the evils of slavery to their husbands.
Stowe uses the emotional attachment of women to their children to help appeal to other women readers. We lear...