why did mrs. stowe write uncle tom's cabin?

Answer 1

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Boston: Jewett, 1854

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) is best known today as the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, which helped galvanize the abolitionist cause and contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War.

http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/stow-har.htm

http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/life/

http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/stowe1.htm

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA97/riedy/hbs.html

AT different times, doubt has been expressed whether the scenes and characters pourtrayed in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" convey a fair representation of slavery as it at present exists. This work, more, perhaps, than any other work of fiction that ever was written, has been a collection and arrangement of real incidents, of actions really performed, of words and expressions really uttered, grouped together with reference to a general result, in the same manner that the mosaic artist groups his fragments of various stones into one general picture. His is a mosaic of gems--this is a mosaic of facts.

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/uncletom/key/kyhp.html

http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Harriet_Beecher_Stowe/Uncle_Toms_Cabin/

http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/stowe.htm

Stowe wrote this book to defend her novel against one of the most wide-spread complaints that pro-slavery critics lodged against it -- that as an account of slavery Uncle Tom's Cabin was wholly false, or at least wildly exaggerated.
Harriet Beecher Stowe: The little woman who wrote the book that started this great war. by Kimberly J. Largent

http://ehistory.osu.edu/uscw/features/articles/ArticleView.cfm?AID=52

Answer 2

Her sister-in-law wrote her saying, "Harriet, if I could use a pen as you can, I would write something that would make this whole nation feel what an accursed thing slavery is." After reading this aloud to her children Harriet dramatically crumpled the paper in her hand and said, "I will write something if I live." While at church she is said to have had a vision of "Uncle Tom's death" and was reportedly moved to tears. Immediately she went to her home and started writing her book.

Answer 3

She felt the slaves should be treated better. She still didn't see them as fully equal to whites but felt they needed to be treated more as children than animals. I haven't read it in 30 years but I think if she didn't think that at least she felt that was what others would fell without being insulted.

Answer 4

She wanted to expose the evils of slavery to America.

Answer 5

to show her opposition to slavery and to gain support for Americans who were slaves