Such Quick and Living Anguish
In the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe depicts how, for the enslaved woman, motherhood and despair are inextricable. Furthermore, Stowe shows how misery can be most palpable in silence, without the burdens of twisted language and logic. Stowe describes an enslaved woman on a south-bound boat with an infant child in her arms,…