Uncle Tom's Cabin, By Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published after The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. The book was Stowe’s protest against not only to the Slave Act, but to the institution of slavery itself. Henceforth, within the book Stowe gives examples how there is no “good slave owner”, by pointing out the flaws St.Clair and Shelby possess in the act of keeping slaves, even though they are considered to be kind to their slaves. Explaining that there can’t be a good Christian person who owns slaves, since her target audience is mostly towards the religious north. Although throughout most of the book Stowe focuses on the story and not the reader, she would at times break the fourth wall to directly question the reader’s morals directly and address key points in the story