Viewpoints Comparative Questions

  1. Compare and contrast Grimke’s and Stowe’s arguments against slavery. How might each have responded to the other’s work?
  2. How did each author appeal to the basic assumptions and beliefs of their audience? How did they seek to change those assumptions and beliefs?

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (London: John Cassell, 1852), 3–5.