出刊年月/Date of Publishing

1983.12

所屬卷期/Vol. & No.   第13卷第4期 Vol. 13, No. 4

類型/Type                 研究論文 Research Article

篇名/Title
《黑奴籲天錄》與立即廢奴思想
Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Abolitionism

作者/Author
孫同勛 Tung-Hsun Sun

頁碼/Pagination
pp. 31-56

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Abstract
When Uncle Tom’s Cabin first appeared in book form in March, 1852, it immediately achieved a great success in sale. The reasons for its wide and earnest reception by the reading audience might be varied. But one of them must have been Harriet Beecher Stowe’s sentimental presentation of the miserable life of slaves under the cruel slavery system which touched the tender hearts of hundreds of thousands of men and women.

Though her attack on the peculiar institution of the antebellum South was relentless, Mrs. Stowe was not an abolitionist. It is true that she was in agreement with the abolitionists at least on four points. All of them directed their attack at the slavery system itself, not at the white of the South, disclaimed the use of political power or any form of brutal force to end slavery, and showed relatively no clear racial bias against the Negro. But on one crucial point Mrs. Stowe differed sharply from the abolitionists. While the abolitionists would grant full citizenship of the United States to the Negroes after they were emancipated, Mrs. Stowe seemed in favor of sending the freedmen to Liberia after providing them with some education. It is because of this difference that the author of this paper concluded that Mrs. Stowe’s antislavery thought as shown in Uncle Tom’s Cabin was much more moderate than that of most abolitionists.

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學門分類/Subject
文學 Literature