In what ways did Uncle Tom’s Cabin positively influence American culture? The intellectual movement known as the Enlightenment, spanning the late 17th and the 18th centuries, applied the critical method and mechanistic principles of the Scientific Revolution to human society and government ( Baum, K., Enright, K., & van Tuyll, H. (2011) Historical Contexts and Literature: Selections from the United State and Beyond (1775-Present). Just like the age of enlightenment had a positive influence on people, encouraging them to believe that all people deserve “Natural” right. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” shows the negative impact that slavery had on families. Stow’s book help 19 century American’s envision what kind of country they wanted the United States to be.…show more content… Working class citizens felt empathy toward black because the book humanized them. The book was a powerful tool in bringing the experiences of slavery to the common people and aiding to the anti-slavery movement. "Poor, homeless, houseless creatures! It's a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I'll break it, for one, the first time I get a chance; and I hope I shall have a chance, I do! ... John, I don't know anything about politics, but I can read my Bible; and there I see that I must feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and comfort the desolate; and that Bible I mean to follow"(Stowe, 144). Stow also was a voice for women’s right and through the characters in her book she shows women’s power and influence both inside and outside of the household. The positive impact could be seen from around the world both political and morally As Uncle Tom’s Cable help to change the common people views on slavery. Helps them to see that slaves were not animals but human
