
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Malcolm Goff
Artist StatementCan you use the other one I sent he other day Harriet Beecher Stowe gives so much insight into nuanced and complicated characters both for and against slavery. Character transformation and development is very important this story. However, one of the most important insights is into her mind as the author, with her references to Black people as, \"simple minded.\" Yet despite the common prejudice of her time, Stowe pulls no punches on many other levels, calling her white brethren out on their contradictions. I felt it was important to create a piece of art that was true to the story from its original time period, as well as my own reaction to \"Uncle Tom\'s Cabin\" through the eyes of this new millennium. My impression of many parts of the book was one of horror. Ms. Stowe deals head on with every issue related to American slavery: murder, stolen children, abuse, suicide, families being torn apart, willful mis-education of youth, the actual hunting of a family, humiliat