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I IntroductionDuring the pre-civil war era, slavery had its ups and downs. Before the cotton gin,slavery was beginning to wind down and the many viewed it to actually lower the USeconomy. That was the view until the cotton gin was invented. Eli Whitney’s inventionreinvigorated slavery and cotton became king. The chief and immediate cause of the warwas slavery. Southern states, including the 11 states that formed the Confederacy,depended on slavery to support their economy. Southerners used slave labor to producecrops, especially cotton. Only a small percentage actually had slaves and few actuallytreated them like family. The others treated the slaves like dirt and worked them to death.Although slavery was illegal in the Northern states, only a small proportion ofNortherners actively opposed it. Many felt that slavery was wrong but had a air ofsuperiority about blacks, free and enslaved. The main debate between the North and theSouth on the eve of the war was whether slavery should be permitted in the Westernterritories recently acquired during the Mexican War (1846-1848), including NewMexico, part of California, and Utah. Opponents of slavery were concerned about itsexpansion, in part because they did not want to compete against slave labor. By 1860, theNorth and the South had developed into two very different regions. Divergent social,economic, and political points of view, dating from colonial times, gradually drove thetwo sections farther and farther apart. Each tried to impose its point of view on thecountry as a whole. Although compromises had kept the Union together for many years,in 1860 the situation was explosive. The election of Abraham Lincoln as president wasviewed by the South as a threat to slavery and ignited the war. The slaves had no say onthe subject, but some were fine with slavery and others despised it, depending on themaster the slave had. These views and attributes stated above were represented bydifferent characters in the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin.II BodyUncle Tom could be viewed as a saint and a voice of reason in the book. UncleTom is almost never seen without his Bible, and he used it wherever he went. Althoughmany treated him as an inferior man, Tom seemed to be able to touch the soul of nearlyany man. Uncle Tom, the main character, possesses a trait that sanctifies him from the
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