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Dedication to faith was an important aspect in Stowe’s life, and because of this, the impact it had on Uncle Tom’s Cabin is perceptibly reflected throughout its pages. Perhaps the person who had the greatest influence on Stowe was her father, and because he was a preacher who “lived intensely with his children and his God” (Johnson 580), his beliefs spread to Stowe (Elliot 12). He believed “that it is decided before birth whether a person is one of the elect who will go to heaven, and nothing a person does in life can change that” (12). Although it is unknown if Stowe completely accepted her father’s beliefs (Gerson 38), religion still influenced her writing immensely. While in church on a Sunday in February, Stowe was first moved to write her novel (Fritz 64). Picturing a vision where “a slave was being beaten to death by his master with the help of his two lackeys” (64), she was sent running home, and “was so shaken by this experience that when she went home, she wrote it all out” (64); the slave that she envisioned she called Tom (64). “From the opening chapters, there are echoes of Christ in Tom’s words and actions, suggestions that Tom somehow resembles Christ” (Claybaugh xxxii), and because of this “many readers noticed parallels between Hatty’s tale and the story of Christ’s dying on behalf of others” (Elliot 34). “Stowe was the first to imagine a slave as Christ” (Claybaugh xxxii), and by making the death of Uncle Tom filled with “scenes of blood cruelty” (Stowe 475), “Tom’s death, though tragic, is not in vain because it makes possible the freedom of so many others” (Elliot 34), clearly resembling the death of Christ. God’s image is further portrayed through not only Tom, but Eva as well, and they both “qualify as ‘saints’ who regenerate in both…religious conversion of the heart to Christian faith and moral conversion to the political cause of emancipation” (Gatta 313). “The original sin of American slavery not only divided slave families but also separated free citizens from their God” (313). However, because Uncle Tom’s Cabin creates a scenario where there is an “awakening to the power of God’s
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