I'm afraid you made several errors in your statement. Harriet DID visit the South on many occasions and saw personally how slaves were treated. She also visited with fugitive slaves in Cincinnati, Ohio, and learned first-hand from them what slavery was like.
She still wasn't a slave, and she was not Black. She was on the outside looking in.
You really have to read "The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Then you will really understand how much she did know about the slavery issue.
I think that it is really important that i add to this forum by saying that Hariet Beecher Stowe had no actual recollection of what slavery was like. She had never been to the south nor visited a plantation. So in fact, this book portrays a very romantic view of slavery. But its a good book nonetheless. <br>-Kelly
I looked at Ms. Stowe's biography and I don't see where she ever claimed to have visited the south, nor does she in the "Key". She was a school teacher with seven children. Simon Legree she admits in the "Key" is totaly made up and based on some hard men she had heard about. Keyshanna's post is right on the money.
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