“I am very big into superheroes” (Ty Simpkins Quotes). Undisputedly, many adults and kids share this opinion, but what it so appealing about superheroes? It could be any of a myriad of reasons, but one that is most likely is the ability of superheroes to make a lasting difference in the world. Fortunately, one does not have to wear a cape to improve the broken parts of the world. Many people throughout history, such as Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Winston Churchill, have recognized injustices and used their own powers to speak out to provoke change. Another such person was Harriet Beecher Stowe, who recognized the inhumanity of slavery, and wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin to call attention to its atrocity. Comparably to all great superheroes, she elicited lasting changes on behalf of the oppressed and…show more content… The Southerners wanted the states to become slave states, while the Northerners, influenced by the ideas of the Second Great Awakening, the religious movement against slavery, wanted the states to be free (Cumberland). The decision was important because it would impact whether the North or the South had more control as the majority in politics.
To conclude the issue, Congress devised the Compromise of 1850, part of which included the Fugitive Slave Law. This law stated that slaves fleeing into free states could not legally be assisted by anyone in their escape. Infuriated by its implementation, Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin as an impassioned response. By writing the novel, Stowe sought to appeal to American citizens on behalf of this oppressed race (Levernier). In fact, N.W. Senior and J.C.B. Davis, literary experts, have since described Stowe’s book, “in the form of a novel, it is really a political pamphlet”
