Feminism in Uncle Tom's Cabin While Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin deals openly with the wrongs of slavery from a Christian perspective, there is a subtle emphasis but strong on the moral and physical strength of women. Eliza, Eva, Aunt Chloe, and Mrs. Shelby all display remarkable power and an understanding of good over evil like most of the male characters in Stowe's novel. Even Mrs. St. Claire, who is ill for much of the book, later demonstrates that she was always in physical control of her actions, however immoral they were. This emotional strength, when compared to the strength of the male characters, shows a belief that women are equal to men (if not more) that was uncommon in 19th century literature. In 1848, the first women's rights convention was held in Seneca Falls. New York. Although Stowe did not participate, many of those who were strong in the abolitionist movement, such as Fredrick Douglas and Amy Post, did. A correlation was thus drawn between the abolitionist movement and women's rights. Both struggles were about equality, so naturally those who supported emancipation also supported gender equality. Uncle Tom's Cabin not only follows the life of Uncle Tom, from the time he is sold by his longtime master until Tom's death, but it also follows the life of Eliza, another slave who lives on the Shelby plantation with Tom at the beginning of the novel. But unless... middle of the paper... Topsy, but help her repent too, because Topsy later says, "I'll try, I'll try; I never cared about anything before" (94). Uncle Tom's Cabin contains almost as much basic moral as any other story; love has no physical barriers. The point of Stowe's novel is to demonstrate this in terms of race. But at the same time Stowe also shows it in terms of gender. By making female characters more morally righteous than male ones and showing women's physical assets more prominently than men's, Stowe allows audiences to see a side of women that was relatively invisible in 19th-century American culture. Works CitedStowe, Harriet Beecher. "Uncle Tom's Cabin." New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1927