The Art of Persuasion: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Faye Halpern https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/uncletomscabin Passage concerning Eliza and Mrs. Bird en-us 2017-09-11 17:08:04 UTC 2017-09-11 22:43:36 UTC hello@padlet.com From Uncle Tom's Cabin (Mrs. Bird has just taken Eliza into her house; Eliza is explaining why she ran away from her master) fayehalpern https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/uncletomscabin/wish/186477169  The woman looked up at Mrs. Bird, with a keen, scrutinizing glance, and it did not escape her that she was dressed in deep mourning.
  "Ma'am," she said, suddenly, "have you ever lost a child?"
  The question was unexpected, and it was a thrust on a new wound; for it was only a month since a darling child of the family had been laid in the grave. . . . Mrs. Bird burst into tears; but, recovering her voice, she said,
  "Why do you ask that? I have lost a little one."
  "Then you will feel for me. I have lost two, one after another,—left 'em buried there when I came away; and I had only this one left. I never slept a night without him; he was all I had. He was my comfort and pride, day and night; and, ma'am, they were going to take him away from me,—to sell him,—sell him down south, ma'am, to go all alone,—a baby that had never been away from his mother in his life! I couldn't stand it, ma'am. . . .
  The woman did not sob nor weep. She had gone to a place where tears are dry; but every one around her was, in some way characteristic of themselves, showing signs of hearty sympathy.

]]> 2017-09-11 17:10:05 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/uncletomscabin/wish/186477169 Who they are: fayehalpern https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/uncletomscabin/wish/186478380 --"The woman" is Eliza, a slave who has escaped with her son when she found out he had been sold.
--Mrs. Bird (a white woman) is the wife of a senator. She lives in Kentucky, where Eliza has escaped to. ]]> 2017-09-11 17:12:17 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/uncletomscabin/wish/186478380 Questions fayehalpern https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/uncletomscabin/wish/186485857 -What is Eliza trying to do here? What nineteenth-century negative views of black people is this passage trying to combat?
-What does this passage tell you about how Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, thinks about how to persuade people that slavery is wrong? 
-Does this remind you of any other books or authors? 
-Are there any words or phrases that you think are particularly significant here? ]]> 2017-09-11 17:26:12 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/uncletomscabin/wish/186485857 Uncle Tom's Cabin fayehalpern https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/uncletomscabin/wish/186488143 Published in 1851-2, it was the all-time bestseller of the nineteenth century in the US. It was an abolitionist (anti-slavery) novel and had a huge impact on convincing Northerners that slavery was wrong. Southerners hated it. ]]> 2017-09-11 17:30:16 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/uncletomscabin/wish/186488143 Link fayehalpern https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/uncletomscabin/wish/186503934 You can also link to this padlet directly: https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/uncletomscabin

]]> 2017-09-11 18:02:31 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/uncletomscabin/wish/186503934 Answers- Victoria, Erin, Natasha, Hannah, & Raynna https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/uncletomscabin/wish/186585220 - trying to make black people seen similar to white people through shared personal experiences
- Stowe used the powerful imagery of the death and theft of a child to draw these similarities
- "To Kill a Mockingbird" when a black man was accused of something they did not do because of his skin colour
- significant words: sell; it is emphasized
- significant phrases: "she had gone to a place where tears are dry"; powerful idea]]> 2017-09-11 22:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/uncletomscabin/wish/186585220 First Day Discussion https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/uncletomscabin/wish/186585383 1. Eliza is trying to appeal to Mrs. Bird's sentiments by establishing common experiences. She is relating mother-to-mother, rather than as a black woman to a white woman. Eliza disproves what Haley, acting as a mouthpiece for careless traders, says in an early chapter about how black people do not grieve in the same way as white people.
2. Stowe employs a universally disputable scenario: a child being taken from his mother. This appeals to the sentiments of almost every reader.
3. This reminded us of the poem "The Runaway Slave" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
4. We think it is significant that Eliza is referred to as "the woman" and Mrs. Bird is identified by name. It is as though being a slave and the property of another nulls one's right to a personal identifier.]]> 2017-09-11 22:32:15 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/uncletomscabin/wish/186585383 Molly and co - thoughts https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/uncletomscabin/wish/186585421 - this scene shows similar experiences between black and white characters and combats the dehumanizing views of black people at the time 
-reminds us of "the book of negroes" "the help" "12 years a slave"
-"she had gone to a place where tears a dry.."' this sentence allows the reader to feel sympathy, encourages the reader to engage with feelings of sympathy for the character  ]]> 2017-09-11 22:32:34 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/uncletomscabin/wish/186585421 https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/uncletomscabin/wish/186585463 Answer one: Eliza is attempting to humanize herself, to relate to Mrs. Bird. They have a devastating thing in common - a loss of a child. This loss is relatable as it is not a question of race, it is the shared devastation of losing a child. 
Second Question: The author appears to be an abolitionist because she uses certain phrases such as "Keen, scrutinizing glance" perhaps indicating intelligence and humanizing Eliza. Mrs. Bird let Eliza into her house when she had ran away from her master, showing that Mrs. Bird sympathizes with Eliza, rather than fearing or shunning her? It is two women simply having a conversation over a shared loss, rather than a white woman speaking with a black woman. ]]> 2017-09-11 22:32:59 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/uncletomscabin/wish/186585463