Slave trade played a huge role forming the modern world we live in. North America was developed almost entirely by slave labor and native exploitation. Slave trade was a practice accepted by society for many years, and there was no opposition. In 1852, a novel titled Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, was published; it was an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Many adaptations to films and plays were developed, one of this was the television movie Uncle Tom’s Cabin(1987) directed by Stan Lathan and screenplay adapted by John Gay; the movie was filmed in Natchez, Mississippi, USA. Many people agree that the novel created grounds for anti-slavery movements around the world. Although the play was directed to the North American population, it had a huge worldwide success. Abolishing slave trade was just the beginning, but there was still much work to do, in order to completely abolish all aspects of slavery. A great justification is that maybe slavery was just “A necessary evil.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut. Although she was raised under a puritan formation, Stowe was believed to be a protestant; which played a great role throughout her life. After a life time of research and study, Harriet marries Calvin Stowe in 1835. The 1850’s law required turning in slaves, even in the “Free States”, this in turn inspires Harriet to write in what would become one of the most controversial book in time. In 1851 Uncle Tom’s Cabin is released; the book highly influenced the Civil War movement. Stowe’s work was translated to thirty two languages, and was adapted to theater plays until 1930. Beecher’s success is not so much directed to her literary abilities, rath…
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