First Time Teaching!

Taught the class about something for the first time! I usually have major stage fright, but this time I feel like I was way less shaky! I really think my first year seminar is really improving my confidence. Here is what I talked about on my slides :

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

-The novel was written in 1852 by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe

-Teacher at the Hartford Female Academy

-She was a powerful abolitionist  

-Abraham Lincoln greeted her as the “little lady who started a war”

Uncle Tom’s Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly

Uncle Tom’s Cabin is about Uncle Tom, who is seen  as a saintly, dignified slave. While being transported by boat to auction in New Orleans, Tom saves the life of Little Eva. Her father is so grateful that he purchases Tom. Eva and Tom became great friends, practically best. Eva got really sick, and on her deathbed she asks her father to free all his slaves. He makes plans to fulfil his daughters wishes, but is murdered before he could. Simon Legree, Tom’s new owner, has Tom whipped to death after he refuses to tell where certain runaway slaves are. Tom maintains a Christian attitude toward his own suffering, and Stowe directly relates Tom’s death to that of Christ.

-300,000 copies of Uncle Tom’s Cabin were sold in the United States during the year after it came out, and it also sold well in England.

-The North loved it but the South hated it and this created controversy.

This novel provided the white people with a new name for insulting black people     - “Tom”

-The Civil War, also known as “The War Between the States,” was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861 and formed their own country in order to protect the institution of slavery.

-Civil War happens, anti slavery side wins! Thanks Harriet!