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While reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin, I have received more of a sense of feminism than abolition. Though Stowe proudly professes the evils of slavery, I believe that it is her profound feelings on the place of women within society that envelops Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Through the development of the female characters, Stowe enforces the ideal of women as the “Angel of the House”, yet asserts their role of importance in the events that surround them. With motherhood as a central theme, Stowe works to indirectly influence her readers to recognize the importance of women within society. Looking directly at the text, evidence is clear on page 52, when Stowe introduces her readers to Mrs. Shelby for the first time. “Mrs. Shelby was a woman of high class, both intellectually and morally. To that natural magnanimity and generosity of mind which one often marks as characteristic of the women of Kentucky, she added high moral and religious sensibility and principle, carried out with great energy and ability into practical results.” She quickly contr