... , while the other plots are examples of freedom narratives. Weaving these two opposing stories together enabled Stowe to reveal the horrors of slavery through Tom's decline, while keeping the inspiring plot of possibilities with the escape of Eliza and George and Cassy and Emmeline. The story begins in Kentucky. The Shelby family owns a house in Kentucky with ... a farm and slaves, including Tom. After Tom has been sold, the story still flashes back to Kentucky telling about the letter that Tom wrote to Chloe and how she worked to ... ...

• Word Count: 550
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... a sectional divide that would split the Union in the years to come. The origins of the Kansas-Nebraska Act lie in the uncontroversial issue of the advancement of Midwestern settlement. Farm families in Iowa and Missouri had longed to expand into the great frontier to the west, but this region had yet to be organized into a territory. Plus, many advocates of ... of building a railroad linking the coasts together. Conscience Whigs and Free-Soil Democrats from the North believed the Kansas-Nebraska Act violated the Missouri Compromise and that it was a Southern plot to spread slavery. Plus...

• Word Count: 690
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... about this secret organization I decided to escape from my master's plantation. So, the night of the 21st of October of 1832, I escaped from the plantation and went to an isolated farm. There I met Harriet Tubman. She was an African American who fled slavery and then guided runaway slaves to freedom in the North. Both of us and some slaves began the ... cruelty and injustice our nation was showing to the slave, and praying God to let me do a little and cause my cry for them to be heard." Uncle Tom's Cabin plot follows the story of Uncle Tom, a religious and faithful slave, as he is sold...

• Word Count: 837
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... an all white Methodist family that believed in "christianizing the slaves for a better time ahead" (10). "So their own Negroes might be saved, the Turner's held prayer services on their farm and took the blacks to Sunday chapel" which also denotes how the Turner's felt about religion" (10). Nat's family and other slaves at the household agreed that he was meant ... in which the southern and the northern slaveholders felt. In the south, they felt that they should have someone to blame, so they "linked the revolt to a sinister Northern abolitionist plot to destroy their cherished way of l...

• Word Count: 1024
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School