Describe Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Read the biographical note on Harriet Beecher Stowe (pp 838-840), and then read chapters VII, IX, and XII from her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (pp 840-873). Read the poems by Longfellow, Harper, and Whitman:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (656-658), “The Slave Singing at Midnight,” 709-710Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1241-1242), “Eliza Harris, 1242-1244, “Learning to Read,” 1245-1246Walt Whitman (1070-1073), from “Song of Myself,” sections 10 (1094-1095) and 13 (1096-1097) Book to use (Levine, R. S. (2017). The Norton anthology of American literature. W.W. Norton.)These are the Questions that has to be answered 1. What use does Stowe make of Nature?2. What is the relationship between Nature and Spirituality that underlines Stowes action? Use these passages to compare Tom and Chloe ch7 and ch 9 Speech of John.3. How to represent Black people and What are the problems with slavery and respect African Americans.4.How does each writer make African Americans worthy of concern and respect?5. Do Longfellow, Whitmen and Harper use any of the same strategies?6. what is the most striking differences in their appeals to the readers? 7. Which of the Poems is the most challenging to Ante Bellum readers?8. Which one is the most successful to you and why and which one seems like stowe in it representation of blacks?
