What caused many northerners to be more aware of the human cost of slavery

"The Novel Uncle Tom's Cabin"

Explanation:

Harriet Beecher Stowe

In 1851, she began publishing her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin serially in The National Era, an anti-slavery newspaper published in Washington, DC. The book sold 300,000 copies in the US in the first year of its publication, and an estimated 1,000,000 in the United Kingdom. Except for the Bible, it is estimated that it outsold every other book published in English during the nineteenth century.

The book humanized slavery to its readers. The characters were believable, the incidents neither better nor worse than reported in other sources, and the plot appealing to the tastes of the era. Now when people heard about slaves, they thought of Uncle Tom and Eliza, people about whom they cared.

- Original post from Jim Wayne, B.A. from Duke University (1967)

the assassination of president lincoln was just one part of a larger plot to decapitate the federal government of the u.s. after the civil war. the first reaction to lincoln’s death was disbelief. then it quickly changed to grief. abraham lincoln’s death created an outpouring of grief from citizens in both the north and the south.

explanation:

lincoln was the first u.s. president to be assassinated. president abraham lincoln, america’s civil war leader, was assassinated just five days after confederate general robert e. lee surrendered his army at appomattox court house, ending the four-year war between the states. on the evening of april 14, 1865, lincoln was attending a performance of our american cousin at ford’s theatre in washington, d.c. john wilkes booth – a 26-year old actor, confederate sympathizer, and white supremacist – slipped into the presidential box and shot lincoln in the head. john wilkes booth and his conspirators had initially planned to kidnap lincoln to save the confederate states. but as the confederacy faltered, booth’s thoughts turned to murder. booth may have decided to act on his hatred after lincoln endorsed giving the right to vote to african-american men who had served in the union army.

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